Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 12:48:55 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org> Cc: Andrew Reilly <andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org>, current@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosehn <gad@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Importing csup into base Message-ID: <20060306204855.GA88716@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20060306204032.GA7835@green.homeunix.org> References: <20060301170306.GZ55746@elvis.mu.org> <p06230908c02ba3dee4c9@[128.113.24.47]> <20060301224120.GA33946@gurney.reilly.home> <20060301230036.GA65289@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20060306204032.GA7835@green.homeunix.org>
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On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 03:40:32PM -0500, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:00:36PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 02, 2006 at 09:41:20AM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 03:18:07PM -0500, Garance A Drosehn wrote: > > > > Even > > > > though I do like to work with multiple computer languages (and > > > > in fact there is a lot I like about Modula-3), I do think a tool > > > > such as cvsup needs to be in a more universally-available and > > > > widely-known language. > > > > > > I like Modula-3 too (at least conceptually: I haven't found an > > > excuse to code in it), but not "widely-known" is perhaps even an > > > understatement. I came across this site the other day: > > > http://www.tiobe.com/index.htm?tiobe_index > > > Which I thought pretty interesting. I noticed that Modula-3 > > > doesn't even make it into the top-100 popular languages, which > > > puts it below Algol, Oberon, and Modula-2. > > > > > > > Interesting site. Guess which language in the top 20 > > has the most recently approved International standard? > > Without even looking at the list... Fortran? > Yep. The February Headline declared Fortran as a dinosaur language; yet it is one of the newest International standards. http://www.j3-fortran.org/ -- Steve
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