MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman) (11/28/87)
I just got the Fitted Software Tools compiler from Public Brand Software. It looks like a nicely integrated and carefuylly-designed system, and compiles quite fast on my PC-AT. Only problem is that the syntax analyzer barfs on a definition module with an opaque type def as in TYPE Queue; Just to satisfy my curiosity I recompiled a copy of the def module for one of the system libraries (in a different directory, of course) which did an opaque export, and it barfed on that too. The date on the compiler files is sometime in June: did PBS send me an old and flaky version, or is the compiler just flaky? Anyone know out there? Michael B. Feldman residence address for SNail: Professor, Dept. of EE&CS Michael B. Feldman The George Washington University 6218 Wagner Lane Washington, DC 20052 U.S.A. Bethesda, MD 20816 U.S.A. 202-994-7593 MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET
TSI@cup.portal.com (12/06/87)
FST has a BBS at 404/497-0931 where you can download their shareware Modula-2 compiler and get support for it. David
V079GUVN@UBVMS.BITNET (The Priest) (01/27/88)
Greetings. I have a copy of FST's Modula-2 compiler. Is there any way to get it to recognize the underscore (_)? It really craps up my programs when I convert them from PASCAL and find that I have to remove all of them. Also, does anyone know of a program that will convert from PASCAL to M2? Thanx in advance. - The Priest - V079GUVN@UBVMSC
MFELDMAN@GWUVM.BITNET (Mike Feldman) (02/02/88)
RE: question about underscore characters: Neither Pascal nor Modula-2 allows underscores in the official alphabet. (I checked Wirth 3 ed. and the official Pascal standard on this). If you have written identifiers with underscores using some extended Pascal, you are out of luck (these won't even compile on a "standard" Pascal compiler). As a computer science professor I have developed a real "thing" about language standards. People don't read them and compilers don't implement them correctly. I realize this is a list on Modula-2 - but one of the nice things we can all say about Ada is that the standard is well known, and the US government tests compilers for standard conformance (including the prohibition against supersetting). You wouldn't have this problem with Ada. Sigh...
Pat.Terry@p101.f19.n490.z2.fidonet.org (Pat Terry) (05/31/89)
sl162021@silver.bacs.indiana.edu in Message-ID: <9000001@silver> asks > Dear Persons: Does anyone have a current address or phone number for > Fitted Software Tools, the developers of the Public Domain M2 Compiler? Postal Address: PO Box 867403, Plano Texas, TX75086 BBS: +1 214 517 4629 e-mail: ..!uunet!ames!killer!ttsi!roger -- uucp: {mcvax!uunet,tektronix,sun!nosun}!oresoft!dawggon!2!490!19.101!Pat.Terry Internet: Pat.Terry@p101.f19.n490.z2.fidonet.org