[M3devel] Fw: Modula-3 questions

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:
In terms of literature I believe by the long lapsus of history that has gone after that book, you don't need to understand much of it to notice that some  people don't realize the language as of tremendous historic value, aided by negligent community outside. BTW Python it's one of the few that recognize its strong influence over it.
But talking about history and then what happened, this matcvhes with what we are seeing: "Conferences, on how to program Object Oriented Programming"; my goodness, this is the Modula-3 history, what else are they looking for?
Thanks in advance


--- El jue, 19/4/12, Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu> escribió:

> De: Mika Nystrom <mika at async.caltech.edu>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Fw: Modula-3 questions
> Para: microcode at zoho.com
> CC: m3devel at elegosoft.com
> Fecha: jueves, 19 de abril, 2012 12:29
> 
> But at the same time the Green Book (G. Nelson, ed., Systems
> Programming
> with Modula-3, Prentice-Hall 1991) is probably the best
> description of
> how to actually use object-oriented programming in practice
> that's ever
> been published...
> 
> I once wrote to whoever now owns Prentice-Hall and asked
> their copyright
> clearance person for permission to photocopy chapters of
> that book 
> for a class I was teaching.  No response, not even
> "absolutely not."
> But most of it (all of it??) is available online.
> 
> I'm somewhat ambivalent about marketing Modula-3 too
> hard.  I fear that
> if the hordes discover it, they will ruin it.  One
> LONGINT is enough 
> headaches for me.  I find the unchanging nature of the
> language to be
> a huge advantage in what I do.
> 
>     Mika
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: microcode at zoho.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:49:57 
> To: Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.<dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
> Reply-To: microcode at zoho.com
> Subject: Re: [M3devel] Modula-3 questions
> 
> A big inhibitor to Modula-3 is the lack of books and
> tutorials. CM3 has a great system running on tons of
> platforms. But where can people learn to code Modula-3?
> 
> I see this as the biggest obstacle. 
> 
> 
>