griff@anvil.intel.com (12/08/90)
A little while ago I asked the net what languages were available
for Amiga - also what Version was there and if it was still being
sold/supported, etc. Here are some results - if anyone can
"fill in the blanks" - feel free, just repost so the rest of us
can check it out...
These headings should seem obvious, tho' General is the general
feeling about that particular compiler/interpeter (as suggested
by you, the users), this is not to start a flame war about who's
compiler is "better" - just does it support "stand language
syntax" with a minor amount of bugs... (BTW - "commercial" means
"I don't know who does it")
Language: By Who? Version: General:
C Manx 5.? Good
Lattice 5.10 Good
C++ Lattice Fair
Modula-2 Benchmark Good-Very Good
M2Sprint Good
TDI Fair-Yuck
M2Amiga
Pascal PD OK
Metacomco Yuck
KickPascal
PCQ
Forth commercial Excellent
lisp PD
XLisp
XLispStat
Scheme Xscheme
PD
prolog Stony Brook
Draco Excellent
Oberon ?
Fortran Good
Basic "several" Decent
AREXX Good
Smalltalk PD
Postscript PD?
assembler
Icon PD
APL
Logo
Comal
Intercal
Maple
dBase dbMan (program?)
Lattice (Library..for C?)
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:Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore.
:griff@anvil.hf.intel.com
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:These are MY opinions, if iNTEL wanted them, They'd pay for `em!news@helios.TAMU.EDU (Usenet News Admin) (12/08/90)
Keywords: compilers, versions From: n368bq@tamuts.tamu.edu (Raoul Rodriguez) Path: tamuts!n368bq This is an except from a letter I wrote to a distraught 1084 owner who had the exact same problem that I had about 6 months ago... Basically the problem was that every now and then, the monitor would blank out, it would actually power down, but, a good whack on the side of the case would bring the monitor back to life (just like Oral Roberts) but, alas, it would get more and more serious, until you are ready to kill something... like an uncooperative C= dealer... I had the exact same problem, and I took my monitor to the local C= dealer he told me he couldn't g fix it (actually he wanted to replace the entire motherboard of the monitor ($170+... phew!). I told my friend about my problem, we took my moniotr over to his apartment, and he broke out the soldering iron. We open up the case, and took the monitor out (there are screws in the back near the plugs too (we kinna missed them for a bit :) )) you have to remove the metal shielding on the bottom of the mother board and check for broken solder joints, I had about 3 or so we resoldered. You shouldn't do this, but, we pluged it in a checked to make sure where the broken joint was at (before we removed the shielding) by pressing on the bottom of the shielding in certain spots to see where the monitor was broken at. If you can't do the soldering now, here is a quick fix (but it is only temorary (trust me)), take some bad disks and stick them between the metal shielding on the bottom of the mother board and the bottom of the plastic monitor case, about 2 or 3 should do in order to get the picture back. This will only last about 2 months or so though... and then it goes a back to its old tricks. All and all, it cost me a Super Big Gulp to fix (my friend works cheap :) ), and the monitor is good as new. You will have to unsolder the shielding to get at the bad joints, and then have to resolder it in place, and for god's sake, don't mess with any of the knobs inside the case (The one's on the back of the tube are focusing... and they are a pain to get right again... (more experience.. :) ). Before we put the monitor back together again we plugged into the computer to see if it would work or not (it did... :) ). Hopes this helps... Raoul (my monitor works) Rodriguez
wasp@chumly.ka.sub.org (Walter Mildenberger) (12/13/90)
In article <1990Dec7.172455.3870@intelhf.hf.intel.com>, griff@anvil.intel.com writes: |A little while ago I asked the net what languages were available |for Amiga - also what Version was there and if it was still being |sold/supported, etc. Here are some results - if anyone can |"fill in the blanks" - feel free, just repost so the rest of us |can check it out... Ok... |C Manx 5.? Good | Lattice 5.10 Good what's about Dice, PDC,et.al. ? |Modula-2 Benchmark Good-Very Good | M2Sprint Good | TDI Fair-Yuck M2Amiga 3.30 Good (at least the german version, dunno 'bout an english manual) |Pascal PD OK | Metacomco Yuck KickPascal ? I thinks it's 2.0 now ?!? OK (ditto like M2Amiga) | PCQ [...] Oberon from AL+L (like M2Amiga) seems to be Good (ditto like M2Amiga) Cluster "commercial" not released yet ??? (Cluster is a "combination between M2 & C"; incl. Environment; first testers say: seems to be good, but horrible busy-waiting (40% of CPU-Time are wasted at waiting for user-input :-( ) Regards --- Walter Mildenberger, Morgenstr. 55, W-7500 Karlsruhe 1, FRG SubNet: wasp@chumly.ka.sub.org ****** Voice: +49 721 385090 BitNet: 2 b announced soon * Discl.: none, I speak 4 myself