[M3devel] Fw: Modula-3 questions

[microcode at zoho.com]

I haven't found that book or any Modula-3 books online. 

I agree that things are often best left alone and often ruined by constant change and people who want to make things into other things they were never intended to be. I said something similar a few debates ago. I don't care what's popular as long as it still exists :-)



------Original Message------
From: Mika Nystrom
To: microcode at zoho.com
Cc: m3devel at elegosoft.com
Subject: Re: [M3devel] Fw: Modula-3 questions
Sent: 19 Apr 2012 17:29


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.