Re: Is Smart Eiffel ready for large-scale application ?

On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:44:02PM -0700, Charles Hixson wrote:
> Hendrik Boom wrote:
> 
> >...
> >
> >Just to round out the list:  Have a look at Modula-3.  It is NOT,
> >I repeat NOT, the same as Modula-2.
> >
> >Oh yes.  Modula-3 does do shared libraries, garbage-collection, and
> >shared-memory parallelism.  I think it even does all this with native 
> >threads.
> >I've heard that the 911 emergency response system in Montreal
> >was implemented using Modula-3, and that they are quite happy
> >with it.  It does seem to be quite good for reliability.
> >
> >And it's available on a lot of platforms.  On Windows, though, it uses
> >the Microsoft linker, so you already have to have a Microsoft
> >compiler installed (but it doesn't seem to matter much what language
> >the Microsoft compiler compiles, as far as I know.  Modula-3 just
> >uses the linker.)
> >
> >-- hendrik
> >...
> >
> Yes, but Modula3 is as moribund as Sather.

No.  It's somewhat less morbund.  At the originating site you might get that idea.
The last time I lookled there I couldn't even find a link to where Modula 3
had moved to.  It's now housed at elegosoft. See http://www/elegosoft.com
The main development forks are being merged there.

-- hendrik

>  I never really investigated 
> how good either was, because by the time I went to look at them it was 
> an obvious waste of time, no matter HOW good they were.  Eiffel is 
> teetering on the edge of going the same way.
>