dn> Oberon?  (It looks ghastly, although I'll admit ignorance.



One up one me, I can't actually recall ever seeing any Oberon code.



dn> Modular/2 is very nice - I loved it. Unfortunately it's just not



Yeah, I used to have a weakness for it.  I even know someone who still uses
it heaps (on an Atari ST of all things), and they swear by it.  Heck, I
even saw someone advertising for a Modula/2 programmer a few weeks ago.



dn> didn't overtake Pascal though - but I guess it takes the muscle

dn> of a large software house with a successful marketing arm to do

dn> that.



Another thing which a lot of technical people overlook; marketing is a very
powerful tool and a good marketing team can do amazing things with even a
basic product [Paul, settle down and don't mention Borland at this point
:-) ].





Cheers,

  Stephen.



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