[M3devel] C-like syntax for Modula-3

[Henning Thielemann]

On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Tony Hosking wrote:

> Not to rain on this parade, but I hate the idea of Swiss-Army-knife
> programs that do a multitude of tasks.  Better to have a program do
> one thing well (and correctly) than many things badly (incorrectly).
> So the notion of one compiler handling two syntaxes does not sit well
> with me.  Why not just a preprocessor from C-like syntax, which
> observes Modula-3 typing and semantics, into regular Modula-3?  But,
> I echo Olaf's point -- there are way more important things to be
> worrying about than the color of the ceiling tiles, or in this case
> syntactic sugar.

I see no need for Modula-3 with C syntax. I thought Java was created for
this purpose. I collected a long list of C flaws, many of them are due to
C syntax.