Status of Modula-3

[bruce axtens]

I had a long and fruitful relationship with Modula-2. I haven't touched
it now for years. Modula-3 should be fairly easy to pick up, but is it
worth it? Is M3 "viable" in the sense that is there a living community of
users/developers?

--
Bruce

[Mark Carroll]

I was going to suggest that it's been pretty much dead for years, which
would be a pity because Modula-3 is actually a rather nice language,
practical and well-designed and not filled with gotchas: I just don't
expect to be able to get a job these days using it, presently I am
required to use Java instead. (I wonder if it didn't help its adoption
to pick syntax that looks like Pascal instead of C++, not that I mind.)

I am looking forward to being contradicted, though: I had thought that
the books all fell out of print last century, but they've actually
bothered re-printing "Programming in Modula-3" which makes me wonder
who's buying it (anybody?) and why.

-- Mark

[bruce axtens]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 16:34:32 +0100, Mark Carroll wrote:

> I was going to suggest that it's been pretty much dead for years, which
> would be a pity because Modula-3 is actually a rather nice language,
> practical and well-designed and not filled with gotchas

Couldn't agree more.

So it the case that the vast majority of Wirthian languages are under
palliative care? I understand that the Delphi derivative of Pascal is
still out in the streets.

-- Bruce

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Given the various OpenSSL bugs, it could be a good idea to start
replacement free software projects in Modula-3 (or other good languages
such as Common Lisp, Ada, Eiffel, Haskell).

If you could provide a libm3ssl.so to replace libopenssl.so, without all
the bugs, I guess it would do more to promote Modula-3 than anything
else.


--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
http://www.informatimago.com/
"Le mercure monte ? C'est le moment d'acheter !"

[Mark Carroll]

To my considerable surprise I now notice commits on
https://github.com/modula3/cm3 in recent months.

-- Mark