Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!alberta!ubc-cs!uw-beaver!cornell!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!wb3ffv.UUCP!uucp From: uucp@wb3ffv.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Warning From uucp Message-ID: <8808182359.AA14753@wb3ffv.UUCP> Date: 20 Aug 88 01:30:36 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution ListOrganization: The Internet Lines: 64 We have been unable to contact machine 'sarin' since you queued your job. sarin!mail eric (Date 08/17) The job will be deleted in several days if the problem is not corrected. If you care to kill the job, execute the following command: uustat -ksarinN0edb Sincerely, wb3ffv!uucp ############################################# ##### Data File: ############################ >From aplcen!mimsy!rutgers!ucf1vm.bitnet!INFO-M2 Wed Aug 17 13:19:29 1988 remot e from wb3ffv Received: by wb3ffv.UUCP (Smail-2.5) id AA02426; 17 Aug 88 13:19:29 EDT (Wed) Received: by mimsy.UMD.EDU (smail2.5) id AA01953; 17 Aug 88 06:18:59 EDT (Wed) Received: from [128.237.2.253] by rutgers.edu (5.59/1.15) id AA14069; Wed, 17 Aug 88 05:45:08 EDT Received: from cunyvm.cuny.edu by decwrl.dec.com (5.54.5/4.7.34) id AA25713; Wed, 17 Aug 88 02:15:42 PDT Received: from BITNIC.BITNET by CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (IBM VM SMTP R1.1) with BSMTP id 7911; Tue, 16 Aug 88 22:13:58 EDT Received: by BITNIC (Mailer X1.25) id 3244; Tue, 16 Aug 88 22:15:41 EDT Return-Path: Received: from ucbvax.berkeley.edu by jade.berkeley.edu (5.54 (CFC 4.22.3)/1.16.18B) id AA29225; Tue, 16 Aug 88 19:00:52 PDT Received: by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (5.59/1.30) id AA18300; Tue, 16 Aug 88 14:07:06 PDT Received: from USENET by ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU with netnews for info-m2@ucf1vm.bitnet (info-modula-2@ucf1vm.bitnet) (contact usenet@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU if you have questions) References: <79500004@p.cs.uiuc.edu> Message-Id: <3740004@wdl1.UUCP> Date: Tue, 16 Aug 88 16:55:12 GMT Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Sender: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was editor%ucf1vm.BITNET@JADE.BERKELEY.EDU From: Rion Cassidy Subject: Re: C v.s. Modula II Comments: To: info-modula-2@ucf1vm To: "(no name)" 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