Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.maxwell.syr.edu!europa.clark.net!news.msfc.nasa.gov!info.uah.edu!maze.dpo.uab.edu!news.cis.uab.edu!usenet From: Mycroft Newsgroups: comp.client-server,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.beta,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.dylan,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.misc,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.modula3,comp.lang.oberon,comp.lang.objective-c,comp.lang.pascal,comp.lang.simula,comp.object,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32,comp.programming,comp.programming.threads,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.sgi.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Announcement--Critical Mass CM3 Compiler and Runtime Date: Thu, 01 May 1997 16:06:52 -0500 Organization: CIS, University of Alabama at Birmingham Lines: 9 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <336905EC.6E52@cis.uab.edu.nospan> References: <3367B10B.3F54BC7E@cmass.com> <5k9sp7$a78$3@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ss5-1.cis.uab.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.client-server:30107 comp.lang.ada:66861 comp.lang.beta:11068 comp.lang.c:245406 comp.lang.c++:258258 comp.lang.dylan:17685 comp.lang.eiffel:29016 comp.lang.misc:37340 comp.lang.modula2:25338 comp.lang.modula3:18012 comp.lang.oberon:18050 comp.lang.objective-c:16338 comp.object:70621 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:82906 comp.programming:54563 comp.programming.threads:4596 comp.software-eng:61584 comp.sys.hp.apps:17370 comp.sys.sgi.apps:25673 comp.sys.sun.apps:26268 comp.unix.programmer:66347 comp.unix.solaris:121618 Paul Johnson wrote: > Why invent a new language to do all this, and then advertise in an > Eiffel group? Eiffel has been doing all that for years! > Paul. Well Paul, if it makes any difference the language CM3 is based on is Modula-3 and it's probably been around for about as long as Eiffel has.