Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!ethz!solaris!wyle
From: wyle@solaris.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Modula-2 for Suns; it's coming!
Summary: Sun Modula-2 is great!
Keywords: Sun, Modula-2
Message-ID: <412@solaris.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 88 13:18:56 GMT
References: <3740003@wdl1.UUCP> <53801@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net (Mitchell Wyle)
Organization: SOT Sun Cluster, ETH Zuerich
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Sun's 2.0 release of Modula-2 is fantastic.  The compiler includes a
bunch of unix library modules including I/O, ioctls, and access to
system stuff.  It has support for floating point hardware, uses Sun's
optomizer, dbxtool, has a make-file generator, etc.  It is the best
Modula-2 I've coded in.  The demo SCCS project which comes with the
compiler is a great example of how to integrate M2 in a unix
environment.  It's also a useful software engineering tool.  The demo
project is a module-dependency analyzer which prints a graphic based on
import lists.

I won't comment on the extensions Sun has made to the language because
we don't use them :-).

The product is relatively mature, and less buggy than one would expect.

I know nothing about OMSI's new product, but I can highly recommend
Sun's M2 compiler.

-Mitch
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-Mitchell F. Wyle            wyle@ethz.uucp
Institut fuer Informatik     wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net
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