Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!ames!sgi!wdl1!rion 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 References: <79500004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Lines: 18 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