Path: news.daimi.aau.dk!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!newsfeed.nacamar.de!fu-berlin.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news-ham1.dfn.de!news-han1.dfn.de!news-koe1.dfn.de!main.Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!Saruman.CWA.de!news From: Stephan Wilms 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: Fri, 02 May 1997 15:42:49 +0200 Organization: CWA GmbH Lines: 19 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3369EF59.2E06@CWA.de> References: <3367B10B.3F54BC7E@cmass.com> <5k9sp7$a78$3@miranda.gmrc.gecm.com> <336905EC.6E52@cis.uab.edu.nospan> Reply-To: Stephan.Wilms@CWA.de NNTP-Posting-Host: morgoth.cwa.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Xref: news.daimi.aau.dk comp.client-server:30111 comp.lang.ada:66875 comp.lang.beta:11069 comp.lang.c:245516 comp.lang.c++:258350 comp.lang.dylan:17686 comp.lang.eiffel:29022 comp.lang.misc:37346 comp.lang.modula2:25341 comp.lang.modula3:18017 comp.lang.oberon:18051 comp.lang.objective-c:16340 comp.object:70635 comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32:82939 comp.programming:54598 comp.programming.threads:4598 comp.software-eng:61590 comp.sys.hp.apps:17378 comp.sys.sgi.apps:25680 comp.sys.sun.apps:26273 comp.unix.programmer:66370 comp.unix.solaris:121660 Mycroft wrote: > > 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. The "Eiffel" has been around for a *very* long time now. It's a small idyllic mountain range here in germany not very far from me. Let me recommend it to you all for your next vacation. :-) Stephan