[net.lang.mod2] Cambridge Modula-2 Compiler

tom@LOGICON.ARPA (Tom Perrine) (02/19/86)

Does anyone have any experience with the Cambridge Modula-2 compiler for the VAX under 4.2BSD ?

If not, can you comment on any of the other compilers avail for 4BSD?
We need a "real" compiler to support a LARGE programming project, i.e.
50-60K lines of code, so student-type compilers are not  of interest.

Thanks,
Tom Perrine

com-gmb@HATPOLY.UUCP (Gordon Bull) (02/26/86)

We have used the Cambridge Modula 2 compiler for undergraduate teaching for 
the past 2 years.  We started with the pre-release version and have now moved 
on to the current release.  One the whole it is a poor compiler:
   - it is very slow
   - it has poor error messages
   - it has a non-standard library (however the good news is that you can
                                     build your own fairly easily)
We have looked for another compiler without success.  We hear that a
university in Holland has modified the Cambridge compiler to overcome
some of its problems but we don't have more details.

Hope this is of some help

Gordon Bull

jparnas@UCSCC.UUCP (Jacob M. Parnas) (02/27/86)

> We have used the Cambridge Modula 2 compiler for undergraduate teaching for

I have a much better, newer version that you could probably get by
contacting Mick Jordan at Acorn Research Center in Palo Alto CA.

Jacob Parnas