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Subject: Re: Rewrite cvsup & portupgrade in C
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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.

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