[comp.lang.modula2] M2 vs. TP Uggh!

lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins ) (06/22/91)

In article <1991Jun21.105108.4032@waikato.ac.nz> bcs@waikato.ac.nz writes:
>   Something that few seem to remember: Pascal was never designed to be
>   a production language, and dressing it up won't take it's weaknesses away -
>   it can only plaster up the cracks.
>
Professor Wirth himself said to me once: "Pascal was only meant to be a teaching
language. Modula-2 is the real language."

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