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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10261c,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid10261c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,cfbb90c56a313e70 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) Subject: Re: From extended Pascals to Ada 95 guide Date: 2000/08/27 Message-ID: <8obv01$7hu1@news.cis.okstate.edu>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 663235618 References: <8o3s2a$9ph$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <8o4bfq$v0h$1@slb7.atl.mindspring.net> Organization: Oklahoma State University User-Agent: slrn/0.9.6.2 (Linux) Reply-To: dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.pascal.misc Date: 2000-08-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On 27 Aug 2000 13:23:29 -0700, Ronald Cole wrote: >I don't think the GNU Modula-2 compiler was ever finished/released. Not if you mean the front end to gcc. There is a project currently being worked on to make one that's pretty close to producing result though. There are several free Modula-2 compilers out there, though. >Pascal on a //e fifteen years ago. Nowadays, Oberon looks like the >successful, minimalist, follow-up to Modula-2; but if you like >Wirth-style languages, then my money's on Modula-3 as an Ada-level >contender. Okay, why isn't Ada a "Wirth-style language", if Modula-3 is? They share more in common with each other than either does with Wirth's Pascal, for instance. -- David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org http/ftp: dvdeug.net.dhis.org It was starting to rain on the night that they cried forever, It was blinding with snow on the night that they screamed goodbye. - Dio, "Rock and Roll Children"