Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site ssc-vax.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!talcott!panda!genrad!decvax!harpo!whuxlm!whuxl!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!fluke!ssc-vax!keith From: keith@ssc-vax.UUCP (Keith Nemitz) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Re: PD Modula2 Loader: How it works! Message-ID: <110@ssc-vax.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Aug-85 14:14:43 EDT Article-I.D.: ssc-vax.110 Posted: Sat Aug 10 14:14:43 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 15-Aug-85 08:23:42 EDT References: <87@ssc-vax.UUCP> <130@tolerant.UUCP> Distribution: net Organization: Boeing Aerospace Co., Seattle, WA Lines: 31 > > I'm not knocking the PD M-2. For hacking around, it seems to be just fine > fine. But comparing a few benchmark numbers, (especially the seive -- I > *hate* that benchmark!), then waving the flag for the PD M-2 does people a > real disservice. > -- > David W. Smith {ucbvax}!tolerant!dws Hold it! I happen to know that at least two companies (Modula Corp, and Interface technologies) are planning on brining out a native M-2 for Mac, and having a version that you can do groundwork programming is real nice. Unless you want to convert C (now, there's real pretty stuff) into modular software. The only M-2 other than PD is a intermediate code compiler and it takes 2 minutes to compile an empty program. For my money I'll invest in the time to write an application in the Best language for the job. Splitting up the toolbox into logical modules is easier to deal with than having a bunch of C procedures to fish through. Still, it is not a well supported compiler (although it hasn't performed other than every M-2 Compiler I've worked with) but I am not the richest man in the world, and, well, uh, you shouldn't have said such nasty things! (sob). keith (* This is to notify you that your left hemisphere is at war with your right hemisphere. Please do not be unduly alarmed. You were not using either of them anyway. *)