Re: Modula II

"Pat Terry" <CSPT@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
26 Feb 1996 10:39:01 -0500

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From: "Pat Terry" <CSPT@giraffe.ru.ac.za>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 26 Feb 1996 10:39:01 -0500
Organization: Rhodes University
References: 96-01-037 96-02-237 96-02-288
Keywords: modula, standards, design

> [I don't suppose that anyone in the Modula-2 committee took the failure of
> the VDM effort as an indication that the language was too big? -John]


My point is not that Modula-2 _was_ too big. The standardisation effort gave
us a language that _is_ much bigger. The original Modula-2 was pretty
compact.


Pat Terry, Computer Science, Rhodes University, GRAHAMSTOWN 6140, RSA
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