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Date:      Wed, 07 Jul 2004 09:32:29 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
Message-ID:  <xzpd638s25u.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com> (David O'Brien's message of "Wed, 7 Jul 2004 00:00:12 -0700")
References:  <E1Bhd1M-000KEo-Nz@smp500.sitetronics.com> <200407062323.02854.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707043251.GA35651@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <200407062345.24117.kirk@strauser.com> <20040707070012.GC38356@dragon.nuxi.com>

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"David O'Brien" <obrien@freebsd.org> writes:
> 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, ...) that they
> grossly underestimate the effort to write CVSup in some other language.

The problem is not the language itself, but rather the lack of good,
portable implementations of said language.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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