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Rudi,
the answer of your questions was posted to this 
newsgroup. Take a look at the articel :
WG13 homepage - Kees Pronk

Regards Joerg.

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> Hi, the first time in my life I got into contact with the lang Modula2
> was when we got it as a 'first-time-into-contact-with-programming' in
> my school.  Since I have never heard of the lang before, I wonder,
> - what is the language used for, worldwide ?  
> - is it used a lot ?  
> - is there still life in the lang ?  
> - in which country ... ? 
> 
> Since this is a forum specially about it, I am very anciously awaiting
> responses.
> 
> Thanks for your attention
> 

Modula-2 still appears to be highly regarded as a teaching language, and 
one only has to look around to see the extent to which other languages 
have adopted ideas which, whilst not necessarily first propounded in 
Modula-2, were certainly brought to peoples' attention by it.

There also appears to be a coterie of Modula-2 programmers in industry, 
in fact it may be fair to say that it's a "poor-man's Ada"- Ada could to 
a large extent be viewed as a parallel design effort (by committee) which 
addressed many of the same problems.

As for the area in which it is best known, I suppose that I have to say 
North-Eastern Europe. However, even there alternatives such as C++ (and, 
dare I say it, Visual Basic) are in the ascendant, together with 
languages derived from Modula-2 such as Oberon and Modula-3.

Mark Morgan Lloyd
mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or 
colleagues]

On 28 Mar 96  7:23 pm, rudi.lemmens@groept.be (Rudi Lemmens) writes:
> Hi, the first time in my life I got into contact with the lang Modula2
  > 
was when we got it as a 'first-time-into-contact-with-programming' in
  > 
my school.  Since I have never heard of the lang before, I wonder,
  > 
- what is the language used for, worldwide ?


Mostly embedded systems programming. We use it here for doing data 
aquisition on PeeCees as well, but M2 finds itself being used by smart 
developers who need fast, small code that's faster to develop than 
assembler and less prone to programmer error than either C or assembler.

On a personal note, I write most of my utilities in Modula-2. For some 
people, like myself, M2 agrees with the way you think and the way you 
set up your solutions. For others, C agrees more with you. What makes 
you a good programmer is that you know what tool to use for what 
purpose. 

  > 
- is it used a lot ?

That's debatable. It finds itself in highly specialised environments, 
and those are not common. OTOH, C it very general purpose, and is used 
more (at least in North America). 
  > 
- is there still life in the lang ?

Yes, but I would have to comment that more people are moving on to 
Modula-3 or C++ for applications programming. 
  > 
- in which country ... ?

Hm - We're Canada based, and I know Boeing in Washington uses it to do 
some avionics stuff. It's also used by McDonald Dettwiler for things 
like that. 

So you can say Canada, USA, and it's probably very popular in Europe, 
since that's where most of the compilers come from. 

As a side note, my company refuses to hire programmers that do not have 
experience with a language other than C/C++. 


Cheers,

Jan Walter

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: As a side note, my company refuses to hire programmers that do not have 
: experience with a language other than C/C++. 

Hmmm.  So they are prejudiced against us TP buffs, eh? <VBG>
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