Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3?

[pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)]

Andrea Taverna <a.tavs@hotmail.it> writes:

> On 18 Lug, 17:18, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
> wrote:
>> Of those, I'd use Modula-3.
>>
> Are there m3 libraries that satisfy requirement 3?

Check the Modula-3 FAQ.

Like all the other 'rare' programming language, you don't necessarily
have big and redundant libraries of variable quality (of which you may
spend time to choose wisely the one of best quality of course), but if
you're autonomous, you usually can find what you need, or develop it
more easily (remember, these unpopular programming languages are
unpopular also in part because it's easier to develop with them, so
the absence of a "library" is not usually a problem when you have a
concrete program to write).  And finally, while it's not a tasty
solution (because you lose in part the advantages of your advanced but
rare programming language), there's always the possibility of FFI
(Foreign Function Interface), letting you call functions in libraries
written in C or any other programming language following the C ABI.


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__Pascal Bourguignon__