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Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
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ehlo.

> I think that everyone that bitches about CVSup being written in Modula-3
> hasn't looked at what the language features of Modula-3 are (OO, good
> exceptions, threading built into the language, simple GUI, ...) 

   CVSup is a single threaded non-GUI app.
   And OO and exception are not worse in C++.

> M3 because it was a very good language for the job -- C and C++ isn't.

   C isn't. C++ is.

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