Re: Vendor bashing? Sort of.

[mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman)]

In article <35svf1$77i@cmcl2.nyu.edu>,
Richard Kenner <kenner@lab.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote:
>In article <35sc7p$78v@felix.seas.gwu.edu> mfeldman@seas.gwu.edu (Michael Feldman) writes:
>>No, all I said is that the proponents of M2 and M3 were never timid
>>about trying to create enthusiasm (markets, if you will). The jury is
>>out on M3; we'll see what happens as the GNU M3 front end matures.
>
>Just FYI: From what I understand the GNU M3 front end currently being
>developed is meant as a research tool and should not be viewed in the
>same manner as the other GCC front ends (C, C++, Objective-C, GNAT,
>Pascal, Chill, and Fortran).

Thanks for the info on this. I still think it will be interesting
to watch. Modula-2 can be described with reasonable accuracy as
(functionally) Ada--. Modula-3 is therefore Ada--++. :-)

(No concurrency in it, though, AFAIK.)

Mike Feldman
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