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From: rion@wdl1.UUCP (Rion Cassidy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: C v.s. Modula II
Message-ID: <3740004@wdl1.UUCP>
Date: 16 Aug 88 16:55:12 GMT
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 gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:

>When I first came to grad school, and began writing C code again, I
>was unexpectedly disappointed.  I had grown used to a Modula-II like
>language (MESA).  Some of the things that really bothered me about C
>were:

[complaints deleted]

You didn't say where you learned Mesa, but since Xerox is the only
place that uses it, I'd assume you came from there.

Your comments are interesting because when I interveiwed with Xerox
they said that Mesa was more like C than Pascal or M-2.

Rion Cassidy
rion@wdl1.arpa