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 Lines: 24 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 -- -Mitchell F. Wyle wyle@ethz.uucp Institut fuer Informatik wyle%ifi.ethz.ch@relay.cs.net ETH Zentrum 8092 Zuerich, Switzerland +41 1 256-5237