[A83] Re: CPL, UML, Oberon


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[A83] Re: CPL, UML, Oberon




>On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Brandon Sterner wrote:
>
>Maybe I'm asking the wrong guys, but does any of you
>people now where CPL, UML and Oberon are primarily used
>for? I'm going to a university in Antwerp (Belgium) in
>1.5 years and at their site they mention these programming
>languages. But I do not know what they would be used for.

Actually, I asked this...

>
>Oberon is a fairly typical, though not widely used, object-oriented
>programming language for general use.  It was designed by the same person
>who designed Modula-2 and Pascal.  Both the design style and details of
>the language are quite similar and Oberon code looks about like Pascal
>code.  It could be used for any sort of general program, just like Java or
>C++ actually are used.

OK, thanks

>
>The first thing I think of as CPL is a very old language which (among
>other things) is an ancestor to C.  While important for historical
>reasons, it is hard to imagine that someone (much less a universiry) still
>uses it.  Perhaps they just mean regular C and/or C++ but somehow
>abbreviated "C Programming Language" as CPL for no particular reason.
>
>But I would guess that this most likely refers to the internal language
>used by "Concordance" which is an obscure database program.  Presumably
>this is used for manipulating databases, assuming that it is useful at
>all.

Actually they mention the PROLOG programming language,
but I saw on a site CPL is based on Prolog, so maybe
CPL is more likely to be known by some of you guys.

            SUCKER

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