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Article #548is modula-2 dead?
From: jeff zeitlin
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:04
Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 04:04
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Tim Channon (MsgID <714374380snx@black.demon.co.uk>) says: TC::>If asked I tend to be guarded if someone asks what language was used to cod ::>a program. With a lot of my stuff that would be answered 'Assembler and ::>Forth', perhaps leaving out mention of the latter or just saying 'running ::>under Forth'. Commercially Forth is often not acceptable, and unfortunately ::>Modula2 can suffer a little in the same way. Unless the person asking has a legitimate reason to knoe (i.e. he's not just asking out of curiousity) I tend to answer (in various evasively polite ways) that it's none of his business. The most I'll typically say si something to the effect of "a high-level language that I have easy access to." If I know that I've used library modules that were written in other languages, I indicate that it is a mixed-language program. The only time I give out actual information on the source language is if the person asking has purchased the source from me. J/ jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com * OLX 2.2 * He's not dead, he's "metabolically challenged". -- Executive Network Information System (914) 667-4567 International ILink Host
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!olivea!spool.mu.edu!wupost!usc!rpi!psinntp!psinntp!execnet![jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com] From: jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com (jeff zeitlin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: is modula-2 dead? Message-ID: <1992Sep3.812.1194@execnet> Date: 4 Sep 92 04:04:18 GMT Reply-To: "jeff zeitlin" <jeff.zeitlin@execnet.com> Distribution: comp Organization: Executive Networks Information Lines: 25