[comp.lang.modula2] Modula-2 for Suns; it's coming!

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

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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
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