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Re: Status of Modula-3

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bruce axtens <bugmagnet@outlook.com> writes:

> I had a long and fruitful relationship with Modula-2. I haven't touched 
> it now for years. Modula-3 should be fairly easy to pick up, but is it 
> worth it? Is M3 "viable" in the sense that is there a living community of 
> users/developers?

I was going to suggest that it's been pretty much dead for years, which
would be a pity because Modula-3 is actually a rather nice language,
practical and well-designed and not filled with gotchas: I just don't
expect to be able to get a job these days using it, presently I am
required to use Java instead. (I wonder if it didn't help its adoption
to pick syntax that looks like Pascal instead of C++, not that I mind.)

I am looking forward to being contradicted, though: I had thought that
the books all fell out of print last century, but they've actually
bothered re-printing "Programming in Modula-3" which makes me wonder
who's buying it (anybody?) and why.

-- Mark

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Status of Modula-3 bruce axtens <bugmagnet@outlook.com> - 2014-04-28 13:34 +0000
  Re: Status of Modula-3 Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2014-04-28 16:34 +0100
    Re: Status of Modula-3 bruce axtens <bugmagnet@outlook.com> - 2014-04-28 16:01 +0000
  Re: Status of Modula-3 "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2014-04-29 00:16 +0200
  Re: Status of Modula-3 Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2014-11-09 10:21 +0000

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