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In article <1992Aug25.170550.6706@sequent.com> tima@sequent.com (Timothy Alan Anderson) writes:
>
>Modula2 is dead. It's a shame! I was just telling someone after looking at
>a C++ example, "Luckily I learned Modula-2 first. I do all this stuff
>allready, I just have to learn a different syntax".
>
>And let's all thank the Ada-2 folks for nailing the coffin shut...
>
>tima@sequent.com

Right on, although Modula-2 is very much alive in many parts of the world,
in the United States, it is dead. I too am glad that I learned M-2 before I
learned C. I use many of the same principles I learned with M-2 in my C
programming.

One of the biggest complaints I stil have with M-2 is that the type checking
is *too* strict.

Why should I have to assign a pointer to an intermediate generic pointer,
when I all I want to do is convert the type of my pointer?

i.e.
wordpointer = integer pointer;
bytepointer = wordpointer;
character pointer= bytepointer;

vs. C's   character pointer = (char *) integer pointer;

Oh well. I loved M-2 very much, except for the typechecking details. I am
thankful that it taught me good style, but for me, M-2 will be a 'teaching'
language, just like it's grandfather language, Pascal.



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