[comp.lang.pascal] Borland Modula-2

PANDELIOS@TL-20B.arpa (11/06/87)

Jeff,

>Also, does anyone know if borland has a modula-2 compiler?  I asked on the
>other modula-2 conf and no one has responded.

A friend of mine has Borland's Modula-2 for his Kaypro 8-bit machine (BTW,
he loves it).  He reports that while a Turbo Modula-2 for the IBM PC reached 
alpha-test stage almost two years ago, nothing was ever released.  I'm
speculating that Borland is probably taking the same tactic that Digital 
Equipment used:  extend Pascal to the point where it *almost* has all the 
features of Modula-2.  The advantages to that (for Borland and Digital) are:

     1.	You don't have to educate the market to sell the product.  (There
	aren't that many M2 programmers out there and standardization is
	far from complete).
     2.	You don't cut into your Pascal market with your Modula-2 product.
     3.	You don't have to support two *relatively* close (just different
	enough to cause pain) products.

					George

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