[M3devel] Fw: Modula-3 questions

[Rodney M. Bates]

On 04/20/2012 04:12 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
> I haven't found that book or any Modula-3 books online.
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> 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 :-)
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"As long as it still exists" is the critical connection to popularity here.  It takes a certain minimum
of interested people to keep it in existence.  Despite being dramatically simpler than the alternatives,
Modula-3 is still big enough that it needs several people to support it.  We are really a bit low on this
front.

I can't seem to do the Modula-3 support I would like to do *and* use the language for my own projects
too.  And I'm retired.  Frustrating.



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> ------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
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> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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.
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>      Mika
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> -----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
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> 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?
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> I see this as the biggest obstacle.
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