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In article <714374380snx@black.demon.co.uk>, tchannon@black.demon.co.uk (Tim Channon) writes:
|> >Today Modula-2 to me seems to be dying: Vendors are vanishing and most of the
|> >world (i.e. the Intel-World) is using C++. And in 18 months we will have a
|> >wonderful standard, but nobody will care ("Modula-2? We are using C++").
|> >So what is the presence and the future of Modula-2? And who ist really using
|> >Modula-2 (no universities please, just the real world)?
|> 
|> A new shareware comms program (Deputy) for the IBM PC compatible was  released 
|> this month. The extant Odyessey comms program is also written largely in M2.
|> Both are very good but alas I did hear one grumble 'I won't use it because 
|> it's written in Pascal-like'!!! (if it's written in C _I_ look for the weak 
|> typing bugs 8-)
|> 
|> Ok, so the above is not the real world. Hearsay is that there are moves from 
|> Ada to Modula2 by major players but nailing names is not easy. People seem 
|> very guarded in their admission, me included.
|> 
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|> 
|> Prejudice! 
|> 
|>   TC. 
|>     E-mail: tchannon@black.demon.co.uk or tchannon@cix.compulink.co.uk
|>                                 

After talking to Stony Brook Software and Multiscope, I found out that the
Multiscope debuggers are written in Modula-2 (using a compiler written by
Stony Brook and now sold as Multiscope Modula-2 V4.0).  I also talked to 
JPI and was told that their entire product line, except for the C and C++
libraries, is written in Modula-2, including their Dos extender.  Also, in
BYTE there was an interview with the president of JPI who said that in
Europe Modula-2 outsells C by a margin of 2 to 1.  Several
of the national laboratories  and NASA use Modula-2 and their was even an
article about what they were doing with Modula-2 in Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Modula-2 isn't dead yet, and looks to be doing well in Europe.  Maybe this
country will wake up and the "C" craze the will pass. :)

Ben