[Info-vax] Security bugs and vulnerabilities of open source

[Simon Clubley]

On 2019-08-30, osuvman50 at gmail.com <osuvman50 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday, August 30, 2019 at 12:59:41 PM UTC-4, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> 
>> Many years ago I was very fascinated by Modula-2. Seemed like a
>> great concept.
>> 
>> I even started coding some of my Fortran in "Modula-2 style".
>> 
>
> I liked Modula-2. It's the only language I've used that could get an entity ident consistency check error from the VAX linker, indicating or more of the input object files was referencing a stale module definition.
>

I didn't like the mandatory uppercase keywords which exist in some
of the other Wirth languages such as Oberon as well.

I'm glad they are not in Pascal or Ada.

Simon.

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