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=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,a27bd01ed18da21f X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Received: by 10.68.231.202 with SMTP id ti10mr991447pbc.5.1328781799445; Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:03:19 -0800 (PST) Path: wr5ni4450pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!w4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Rugxulo Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada compiler using a M2 compiler as back-end Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 02:03:19 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8d32ea73-4126-4a44-8c28-7d921ba96e4e@s7g2000vby.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.13.115.246 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Trace: posting.google.com 1328781799 30743 127.0.0.1 (9 Feb 2012 10:03:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 10:03:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w4g2000vbc.googlegroups.com; posting-host=65.13.115.246; posting-account=p5rsXQoAAAB8KPnVlgg9E_vlm2dvVhfO User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-Google-Web-Client: true X-Google-Header-Order: HNKUARELSC X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7,gzip(gfe) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Date: 2012-02-09T02:03:19-08:00 List-Id: Hi again, On Feb 9, 3:57=A0am, Rugxulo wrote: > > Once Ada95 and C++98 were standardized (ISO), there was less > need to use Modula-3 as they had the same basic features (objects, > generics, exceptions). Even Oberon-2 (1992) has objects, dynamic > arrays, garbage collection. But Oberon was never standardized, and > even ISO Modula-2 (1996) was quite big (vs. PIM3) Oops, forgot to mention the massive popularity of Delphi/FreePascal, Java, C#, and Objective C. Yeah, I guess you already noticed that (hi Gautier!). In other words, it's a very fractured world. Oh well, variety is the spice of life!