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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 5b1e799cdb,3ef3e78eacf6f938 X-Google-Attributes: gid5b1e799cdb,public,usenet X-Google-NewGroupId: yes X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news2.google.com!news1.google.com!npeer01.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad.highwinds-media.com!PRIMUS.CA-a2RwWykeOfp5w!not-for-mail From: Hendrik Boom Subject: Re: Alternatives to C: ObjectPascal, Eiffel, Ada or Modula-3? Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.modula3,comp.programming References: <4a61e20e$0$2865$ba620e4c@news.skynet.be> <23add16f-9788-49f9-8060-c26f5ad0c584@m11g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <4A621883.5000802@obry.net> User-Agent: Pan/0.132 (Waxed in Black) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: abuse@usenetserver.com Organization: UseNetServer.com Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:09:20 +0000 X-Trace: d48064a7895707d2f666711370 Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.eiffel:444 comp.lang.ada:7579 comp.lang.modula3:124 comp.programming:12420 Date: 2009-08-04T20:09:20+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 18 Jul 2009 20:46:27 +0200, Pascal Obry wrote: > Modula3 is probably also a good candidate, but I do not know the current > status (Open Source compiler? libraries? user community?) of this > language. Modula 3 has open source, but not GPL's compilers and libraries. There should be a link to current development activities on its Wikipedia article. > > Ada has the advantage of a standard and built-in concurrency. Modula 3 also has built-in concurrency. And a garbage collector. And they get along. -- hendrik