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From: Martin <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:16:07 -0700 (PDT)
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On Jul 21, 5:10=A0pm, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> Andrea Taverna wrote:
> > On 21 Lug, 14:25, Jon Harrop <j...@ffconsultancy.com> wrote:
> >> I am very surprised at the list of languages you arrived at! FreePasca=
l,
> >> Eiffel and Modula-3 are all essentially dead.
>
> > I don't think so.
>
> F# is still pretty obscure so look at this trend of FreePascal vs F# by
> Google searches:
>
> =A0http://www.google.com/trends?q=3Dfreepascal%2Cf%23

Unfortunately that picks up a lot of swear-word replacements, as in
"what the f#@$!" and for some reason a heck of a lot of asian
financial pages!!!

Same goes for a straight Google search...

Cheers
-- Martin