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From: Vinzent Hoefler <JeLlyFish.software@gmx.net>
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Subject: Re: advantages or disadvantages of ADA over pascal or modula
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2003 17:16:46 -0500
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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>        I haven't looked at a modula-2 text in some years but as I recall it 
>still had the flaws of Pascal.
[...]
>        if (cond) then
>                statement1;
>        else
>                statement2;

Not in Modula. IIRC, it is more like Ada:

IF cond THEN
  statement1;
ELSE
  statement2;
END;

should be valid Modula. Obviously Wirth learned from his mistakes.
And, BTW, even the code above should spit out a compile-time-error
unless it is a part of some evil nested ifs.


Vinzent.