From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,ffce418d7a49585f X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-09-26 21:40:11 PST Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!uunet!gwu.edu!gwu.edu!not-for-mail From: mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of. Date: 27 Sep 1994 00:19:17 -0400 Organization: George Washington University Message-ID: <3686g5$48n@felix.seas.gwu.edu> References: <35isfn$pqd@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35j1u5$re1@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> <35sc7p$78v@felix.seas.gwu.edu> <35svf1$77i@cmcl2.nyu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.164.9.3 Date: 1994-09-27T00:19:17-04:00 List-Id: In article <35svf1$77i@cmcl2.nyu.edu>, Richard Kenner wrote: >In article <35sc7p$78v@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes: >>No, all I said is that the proponents of M2 and M3 were never timid >>about trying to create enthusiasm (markets, if you will). The jury is >>out on M3; we'll see what happens as the GNU M3 front end matures. > >Just FYI: From what I understand the GNU M3 front end currently being >developed is meant as a research tool and should not be viewed in the >same manner as the other GCC front ends (C, C++, Objective-C, GNAT, >Pascal, Chill, and Fortran). Thanks for the info on this. I still think it will be interesting to watch. Modula-2 can be described with reasonable accuracy as (functionally) Ada--. Modula-3 is therefore Ada--++. :-) (No concurrency in it, though, AFAIK.) Mike Feldman ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael B. Feldman - chair, SIGAda Education Working Group Professor, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science The George Washington University - Washington, DC 20052 USA 202-994-5919 (voice) - 202-994-0227 (fax) - mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Internet) NOTE NEW PHONE NUMBER. "Pork is all that stuff the government gives the other guys." ------------------------------------------------------------------------