Re: [Gm2] Rant against ISO Libraries (bis)

[john o goyo]

Greetings:

Gaius Mulley wrote:
> john o goyo <address@hidden> writes:
>
>
> > Greetings:
> >
> > As an exercise in using the ISO library, I wrote a wee hex-dumper.  It
> > works with the ISO-compliant compilers at my disposal: GPM on Linux
> > and Solaris, and XDS on Linux.  I thought that I would test it with
> > GM2 by defining those bits of the ISO library needed.
>
>
> sounds interesting..
I could always post it to modula2.org.  (It is fairly simple with the
only complications coming the ISO libraries.)

[...]
> yes the libraries in Modula-2 are its Achilles heel. No sockets.
> I'd have preferred a clean interface to the Posix 1003 (?) standard.
> I'm not sure which came first though. However I like FIO and
> DynamicStrings (although neither are PIM or ISO :-)

IEEE 1003.1 issued in 1988 and ISO/IEC 10514-1 issued in 1996.  (Mind you,
work started much, much earlier -- I read Pat Terry's reminiscences of the
long sad sorry tale of the process on his website.)

Sincerely,
john

> I also wonder how complex types found their way into the core
> language. Not that this is a problem for gm2 (or wont be) as the back
> end gcc supports this nicely. I would have thought that complex types
> would be better served by a hidden type and functional programming -
> and introducing the __INLINE__ keyword to make functions very
> inexpensive. It would keep the language smaller. Does anyone use
> complex types in M2 ?
>
> regards,
> Gaius