Re: assembler [was: Re: cheers for gogo]

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Foz wrote:

> Dat was me - poor old me :-)) One thing that modula-2 is VERY 
> good at is the selection of library imports, so instead of importing 
> the entire standard IO block, when you will only use WriteString 
> and WriteLn, the compilation to .exe for Hello World is about 3k - a 
> very good idea - can C do that?

Err, yeah, C can do that, I'm afraid :( Function of the preprocessor,
though... don't think gcc does it, IIRC. Only counts for static linking,
too.

> Other than that for modula-2 it is dead and decrepid.

It's worse than that ;)

> Assignments don't you just love em. Modula-2 will be replaced with 
> Java in 2 years (surprise surprise) over at the MMU.

Another goody's Occam - ever tried that? Mmm. Horrific. By far the worst
language on the face of the planet, bar *none*.

Cheers,

Alex.

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