MCCORMJW@SNYPLAVA.BITNET (John McCormick) (07/15/89)
Has anyone had any experiences (positive or negative) with Oregon Software and/or their Modula-2? We are considering the purchase of their VMS version of Modula-2 for use in our undergraduate curriculum so any experiences with this version would be particularly welcome. =========================================================================== = John W. McCormick Phone (518) 564-2785 = = Computer Science Department FAX (518) 564-7827 = = State University of New York = = Plattsburgh, NY 12901 BITNET MCCORMJW@SNYPLAVA.BITNET = = USA = = SUNY Plattsburgh = = where = = Computers + Model Railroading = Digitally Controlled Trains = = = = * * * = = * = = * = = ## ## T = = ######_########_########_#####_#########- = = o o o o o o o o oo OOOO oo\ = ===========================================================================
drc@CLARIS.COM (Dennis Cohen) (07/17/89)
I've been using their Modula-2 for the Sun (BSD 4.3 unix) and am very pleased by the package. They have a very complete implementation with the hooks added in a sensible manner to access routines and libraries written in another language (eg C). I've had no problems with it at all, being under VMS (and hence a different product) your mileage might vary. -- Dennis Cohen Claris Corp. ------------ Disclaimer: Any opinions expressed above are _MINE_!
intern@lilink.UUCP (Steve Faiwisewski) (07/18/89)
In article <INFO-M2%89071413572923@UCF1VM> Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.bitnet@jade.berkeley.edu> writes: >Has anyone had any experiences (positive or negative) with Oregon >Software and/or their Modula-2? > >We are considering the purchase of their VMS version of Modula-2 for use >in our undergraduate curriculum so any experiences with this version would >be particularly welcome. >=========================================================================== >= John W. McCormick Phone (518) 564-2785 = >= Plattsburgh, NY 12901 BITNET MCCORMJW@SNYPLAVA.BITNET = I work for a major NY bank which uses Modula-2 for telecomm. applications. We use the Hamburg compiler (which was later taken over by Logitech, which then sold it recently to a Swiss company). We evaluated Oregon's VMS M2 compiler, and decided against it for the following reasons: 1) It didn't integrate too well into the VMS environment : it had its own debugger; you couldn't use VMS DEBUG (or PCA, etc.), and interfacing to modules generated by other languages wasn't too clean). 2) It was very different from the Hamburg/Logitech compiler (mainly in the way the support modules were defined), so that conversion would have been a major hardship on our part. Hope this helps. - Steve - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Faiwiszewski intern@lilink.UUCP intern@dasys1.UUCP