Re: Modula-2 on new platforms (was Modula-2: what went wrong?)

> Hmm, I've seen some complaints about people that try to really base
> themselves on scripting languages. Nearly all relating to large scale,
and
> long term use though. It would be logical that that is not the real use
case
> for scripting languages, but those usercommunities seem to suggest it
is.

My own view is that the success of a programming language nowadays is
as much a social issue as technical one.  Ruby, Perl and PHP have
wonderfully sup****tive communities surrounding them.  I've sometimes
felt that there was an atmosphere of intolerance round the Pascal
family.

BTW,  can someone change the thread title back to "What Went Wrong?"
please, or something similar? I'm posting from Google and don't see
how to do that.