rion@wdl1.UUCP (05/12/88)
I just got off the phone talking to Oregon Software about their intended July release of M-2 for Sun3 workstations. It's currently in beta test and they're looking for beta test sites. Anyone interested? They will have symbolic debugging -- their own and hooks for dbx/dbxtool. They are also boasting a 90-day money-back guarantee which hopefully is indicative of the quality of their products. My call was basically to determine availability, so if you want more info you can call them yourself: 800-874-8501. Rion Cassidy Ford Aerospace ** PLEASE REPLY TO: ** rion@ford-wdl1.arpa ...{sgi,sun,ucbvax}!wdl1!rion Disclaimer: My employer forced me to write this at gun-point. I assume no responsibility whatsoever for what I've said here.
wnielsen%lambda@Sun.COM (Walter Nielsen) (05/19/88)
>I just got off the phone talking to Oregon Software about their >intended July release of M-2 for Sun3 workstations. It's currently in >beta test and they're looking for beta test sites. Anyone interested? > .. >Rion Cassidy >Ford Aerospace Of course, Sun has had a Modula-2 for the Sun3 for the last couple of years or so. Soon available on the Sun-4 and Sun386i. Walter Nielsen Sun MicroSystems
wyle@solaris.UUCP (Mitchell Wyle) (05/31/88)
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