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From: mantri@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Ramesh S. Mantri)
Subject: spate of programming languages
Date: 1996/07/26
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organization: University of North Texas
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Date: 1996-07-26T00:00:00+00:00
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Hi,
	My question is actually regarding Modula-3, so I do not know
whether this is an appropraite place to post this article.
	I have been programming for nearly 10 years now but only in the
academic environment. So my interest is mainly concerning the features
provided by various PLs. Quite recently I started learning Ada hoping
that I might find it useful someday. So far it has been a good experience.
	I was told that Modula-3 was another good language. So I browsed
through a book on Modula-3. I was surprised to find the wealth of features
that it provides, some of which seemed to me to have been borrowed from Ada.
Is that true? Next, the book says Modula-3 was developed at SRC, DEC. Pardon
my ignorance, but I always thought Modula-2 was developed by Nicklaus Wirth
et al. If so, is it not a violation of some sort of copyrights to borrow the
name Modula-3?
	The number of Programming Languages which have been developed is so
large that it does not seem possible to me to browse through all the language
features, let alone program using these languages : Fortran-90, Ada, C, C++,
Eiffel, Modula-3, Java, ... to mention a few. Can someone suggest where to look
if one is interested in finding it out the State-of-the-Art of research in
Programming Languages? I am aware of only ACM Transactions on Programming
Languages. ( Just curious ... )
regards.
--- Ramesh Mantri