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Summary: This file contains the answers to some commonly asked questions
about the programming language Modula-2.
Keywords: languages, Modula-2
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Archive-name: computer-lang/Modula2-faq/part1
Version: 2.5
Last-modified: 1996 09 06
Posting-frequency: Monthly
Modula-2 Frequently Asked Questions
What's new in version 2.5?
There are more vendor changes and alterations to URLs that have gotten out
of date, such as some of Peter Moylan's. There are several new site links
and internal links, such as the contents. There is new information on WG13
and especially on Generic Modula-2. The shareware book has been
extensively revised and reformatted and the postscript for the first 7
chapters has a new URL.
=====================================================
SUMMARY:
1. Answers to frequently asked questions about Modula-2 will be collected
at Trinity Western University and included in this document from time to
time as it is revised.
2. Submissions should be mailed to -- rsutc@twu.ca
Anyone making a submission guarantees that they have the right to do so
(copyright holder, or information in the public domain.) and that the
information is not from any source whose copyright lies with another.
3. I will update this summary file and post to the newsgroups
comp.lang.modula2 and to comp.answers and news.answers
4. The latest version will always be available in a Nisus (Mac) form in
ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/m2faq.html
The folder modula2 has a variety of other materials. This version of the
FAQ is readible as text by other word processors, but without any
formatting. It is also available from the site rtfm.mit.edu in plain text
form as
file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/computer-lang/Modula2-f
aq/part1 and as
file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/computer-lang/Modula2-f
aq/part2
5. An automatically generated .html version of the FAQ is available as
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/computer-lang/Modula2-faq
/part1/faq.html
and
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/computer-lang/Modula2-faq
/part2/faq.html
However, this one seems to be a couple of versions out of date.
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CONTENTS:
Part 1
1. WHAT IS MODULA-2?
2. WHERE IS MODULA-2 DISCUSSED?
3. WHERE CAN I GET MODULA-2 COMPILERS?
Part 2
4. WHERE CAN I GET SOURCE CODE, OTHER INFO?
5. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON CODE AND ALGORITHMS
6. WHAT ARE SOME REFERENCE MATERIALS ON MODULA-2?
7. REVIEWS
Appendix: AUTHOR INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMERS
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1. WHAT IS MODULA-2?
A. Modula-2 is a programming notation that corrects some of the
deficiencies of Pascal. It is suitable for learning programming, for large
projects written and maintained in the fashion of professional software
engineers, and for real time embedded systems.
1.1 Who developed Modula-2?
A. Modula-2 was developed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland in
the late 70's. Wirth also developed Pascal and Oberon.
see: http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/nwirth/
1.2 Where is this language described?
A. In Programming in Modula-2 3rd edition published by Springer-Verlag in
1985. For the purposes of distinguishing this from later variants, this
description will be referred to herein as classical Modula-2.
1.3 How do you pronounce Herr Wirth's name?
A. It is incorrect to call him by his value (worth.) Instead his name is veart.
1.4 Can I get a simple introduction to ISO Modula-2?
Yes, the latest revised edition of the shareware text as of 1996 09 06 is
at http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/math/rsbook/Welcome.html
Mirrors: http://eiunix.tuwien.ac.at/Modula-2/rsbook/
1.5 How does Modula-2 fit into the language zoo?
A. It is a descendent of Pascal and Modula, and one predecessor of
Modula-2+, Modula-2*, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, and various object
oriented versions of these. The latter languages are not replacements for
Modula-2, merely later notations in the same family, having strengths and
weaknesses of their own. Modula-2 is sometimes classified with Ada and C as
the trio of modern languages in view of their expressive power. Modula-2 is
smaller and more readable than either.
1.6 What are the differences between Modula-2 and Pascal?
A. Modula-2 has separately compiled library modules, and makes much less
use of blocks (begin...) than Pascal. Identifiers are case sensitive; there
is no goto label; and I/O is in libraries rather than built in. The IF
statement is more versatile; and there are facilities for concurrent
programming via coroutines.
1.7 What is ISO Standard Modula-2?
A. A committee of ISO JTC1/SC22/WG13 with delegates from several countries
has met since 1987 to work on a standard description of Modula-2 and a set
of standard library modules.
A2. The official home of the ISO Modula-2 working group WG13 is at
http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/
1.7.1 What is the status of ISO Standard Modula-2?
A. The international standard (IS 10514) has been voted on and is now official.
1.7.2 Where can I get the Modula-2 standard?
A1. Contact your national standards body or ISO (the publisher.)
A2. For an older version, try looking in
ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/standard/draft4/
1.7.3 What format is the standard document in?
A. Latex.
1.7.4 Who is the convenor of the standards group (WG13)?
A. Kees Pronk c.pronk@twi.tudelft.nl has been appointed by SC22 as interim
convenor of WG13, replacing Mark Woodman, who has resigned. Martin
Schoenhacker of Vienna has been selected as the new convenor, subject to
approval by SC22 at the next plenary.
1.7.5 When was the last WG13 meeting?
A1. It was June 3-7 in Oxford, UK. For more details, follow
http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/meetings.html
1.7.6 When is the next WG13 meeting?
A1. It will be in November of 1996 if there are substantial comments on the
Generics and OO proposals, and not until somewhat later otherwise.
1.7.7 Will I be able to read the standard?
A1. The concrete syntax is written in a variation of EBNF (Extended
Backus-Naur Formalism) and should be accessible to most.
A2. Much of the document's details are written in VDM-SL (Vienna
Development Method - Specification Language) which is a formalism for
giving a precise definition of a programming language in a denotational
style. It is worth learning VDM-SL if you plan to write a compiler or take
a course in formal methods.
1.7.8 Can I at least get electronic copies of the definition modules?
A. Yes, in ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/ISOLibraries/ISODEFMods/ or
ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/standard/libdefs/
1.7.9 Can I get copies of the grammer?
A1. Yes, in
http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/math/rsbook/Appendices/Ap3.nisus.html
A2. For classical Modula-2, see also COCO (section 4.9)
A3. There are nice syntax diagrams for classical Modula-2 in
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/db-research/Enseignement/analyseinfo/Modula2/BNFindex
.html
and there are syntax diagrams for ISO Modula-2 stored at
http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/math/rsbook/Appendices/Ap2.nisus.html
1.8 What difference is there between classical and ISO Modula-2?
A. ISO Modula-2 has resolved most of the ambiguities in classical Modula-2.
It adds the data type COMPLEX and LONGCOMPLEX, exceptions, module
termination (FINALLY clause) and a complete standard I/O library. There are
numerous minor differences and clarifications.
1.8.1 What else is WG13 doing?
A. WG13 is working on two additional standards (separate from the main one)
for (a) object oriented Modula-2 and (b) generic programming facilities.
Both passed the registration ballot as CDs and will now proceed to final
drafting. Various versions of the latest generics proposal (ca101) and the
disposition of comments (ca100) are stored in the directory
ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/WG13/
1.9 What is (was) Turbo Modula-2
A. Borland prepared CP/M versions of Modula-2 and sold them for a time in
Europe (also in North America via a distributer. One of these versions
later migrated to become TopSpeed Modula-2.
1.10 Where and for what is Modula-2 used?
A1. Modula-2 is widely used for teaching the fundamentals of sound
programming techniques, data structures, and software engineering in many
parts of the world. It is the language of choice in much of Europe. It has
features that make it superior to other languages for large projects and
for programming and real time controllers.
A2. Here is a message sent in by a maker of test equipment:
Our BoardWizard range of test equipment has compilers,pseudo-code
interpreters and a complete test operating system written in M2. The code
was written for one tester in 1987 and has been maintained from that date
to the present. New tester models have added and new interface and UI code
has been written, indeed sections have been completely re-written but much
of the core test logic is untouched since about 1990 when I shifted to
management. Much of the code is unknown to those who maintain it - yet
when i look at it after several years I can still explain it to others even
though comments are sparse. I believe that that is the hallmark of a great
programming language. (Emphasis added.)
Dave Appleton,
Technical Manager
Goldtron Technologies Tel : (065)-870-9886
(Ex- Proteq Technologies) Fax: (065)-777-2118
26 Ayer Rajah Crescent #07-01 www: http://www.proteq.com.sg
Singapore 139944
A3. The following survey results were recently posted by Mat. Maher
ssu94114@reading.ac.uk
ORGANISATION LOCATION WORK COMPILER
Statoil Norway StonyBrook
Inst. for Space Nerology Austria datafile conversion TopSpeed
dataviewers
Boeing Washington Aerospace Eng. p1(MAC)
CDSS UK embedded control sys. TopSpeed
for submarines
(self-employed) UK embedded Pcs and TopSpeed
pc-like chips
(manufacturer) Finland, 8051 embedded control Mod51
S.Africa,
Australia,
NZ, USA
Pacific Software California Point-Of-Sale systems -
Tele-Soft S. Africa Scientific CAD progs TopSpeed
Databases
(confidential) UK Instrumentation & TopSpeed &
telemetry Custom tools
USA Dept. of Energy Idaho Reusable components StonyBrook
Idaho Nat. eng. labs systems programming
Locheed Idaho technologies company
Applied software resuse Products
GiaStar Ltd UK Satcoms/Comms. Elect. TopSpeed
design & m/facture.
University of Reading UK Teaching,embedded ctrl TopSpeed
University of Loughborough UK StonyBrook
and Hertsfordshire TopSpeed
(sole trader) UK Electronic Design TopSpeed
Atomic Energy of Canada Canada Shutdown system for prototype in
Ltd. (AECL) nuclear reactor TopSpeed
final version in
Hicross (HiWare)
Wallac Oy Finland beta/gamma counters Logitech,
control & data acquis. Multiscope
Inspectron AG Switzerland remote surveillance Logitech,
Multiscope
Bank of New York USA funds transfer & Terra Dutentechnik
customer enquirys (VAX/VMS)
(freelance) Motorola IC production Logitech
line tools. (Asia)
Dexdyne Ltd UK Single-board Pcs & TopSpeed
applications.
(freelance) Australia Shareware p1 (mac)
Multi-Master AS Norway Embedded systems, Logitech,
remote control & acquis. Multiscope
(confidential) room acoustic sim & TopSpeed
(audio) virtual reality
1.12 Why do universities use Modula-2 for teaching instead of C or C++?
A. Modula-2 is a type-safe language and its compilers will therefore catch
many errors that otherwise show up at run time. While professional
programmers need to learn C because it is commonly used, it is important to
begin a discipline of deliberate, engineered programming at the outset.
A2. Here are the results of a survey of university usage of Modula-2 done
by Bernhard Leitch
lang. total perc. group
Pascal 159 35.57% 1
Ada 73 16.33% 2
Scheme 51 11.41% 4
Modula-2 49 10.96% 1
C 36 8.05% 3
C++ 28 6.26% 3
Fortran 10 2.24% 5
Turing 6 1.34% 5
Eiffel 5 1.12% 5
SML 5 1.12% 5
Miranda 4 0.89% 5
Modula-3 4 0.89% 5
ML 3 0.67% 5
Oberon 2 0.45% 1
ISETL 2 0.45% 5
Smalltalk 1 0.22% 5
Beta 1 0.22% 5
Prolog 1 0.22% 5
Simula 1 0.22% 5
Orwell 1 0.22% 5
Basic 1 0.22% 5
Trine 1 0.22% 5
Cobol 1 0.22% 5
Pop-11 1 0.22% 5
Lisp 1 0.22% 4
--- -------
447 100.00%
in language groups:
Wirth lang. 210 47% 1
Ada 73 16% 2
C/C++ 64 14% 3
Lisp like 52 12% 4
other 48 11% 5
--- ----
447 100%
1.13 Why is Modula-2 a good language for large commercial projects?
A1. It supports modular design which reduces errors and cuts down on
maintenance time. This also allows platform dependencies to be isolated,
increasing portability.
A2. see: Griffith, Laurie Modula-2 is three times less error prone than C,
Proceedings of the Second International Modula-2 Conference, Loughborough
University of Technology, UK, September 1991, pp 332-338.
1.14 Where do I get information on Oberon and Modula-3?
A. These languages have their own newsgroups. The Modula-3 FAQ is located
at http://www.vlsi.polymtl.ca/m3/faq.html and Oberon has an interesting
page at http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Ob-pkgs.html
1.15 Where do I get information on Modula-2*?
A. Try http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/m2star
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2. WHERE IS MODULA-2 DISCUSSED?
2.1 COMP.LANG.MODULA-2
This is an internet newsgroup for questions, answers, and discussions on
Modula-2. You may read it under this name on any machine on which you have
a news account.
2.1.1 How do I post a message to comp.lang.modula2?
A. Post it directly into that group using a news program on any computer
connected to the network.
2.1.2 How do I retrieve old messages from comp.lang.modula2?
A. Your local news server probably keeps old messages only for a few weeks.
You should be able to mark the entire group as unread and browse whatever
is available there.
2.2 Compuserve
If you have a Compuserve account, GO CODEPORT to join the portable
programming forum.
2.3 Amiga lists
2.4.1 A general list for Amiga Modula2/Oberon programming. This is
available in a similar manner at amiga-m2@virginia.edu. It is not oriented
toward any specific compiler.Mail to cbt-general-request@virginia.edu to
subscribe.
2.4.2 A mailing-list for the Amiga Turbo Modula-2 Compiler written by
Amritpal S. Mann. To subscribe, send a message to
maillist@econet.demon.co.uk with SignOn turbo-list as the Subject. Once
subscribed, you will receive a copy of all messages sent to the address
turbo-list@econet.demon.co.uk.
2.4 Gardens Point Modula-2
To join the GPM mailing list, send mail to majordomo@dstc.qut.edu.au with
the subject line blank and the body
of the message containing:
subscribe gpm
info gpm
end
Mail sent to gpm@dstc.qut.edu.au gets automatically forwarded to all
subscribers on the list. The development team are of course subscribers.
2.5 XDS
To subscribe to the XDS mailing list, send message with the following body:
subscribe xds
end
to majordomo@listserv.iis.nsk.su.
To submit a posting to the list, send it to xds@listserv.iis.nsk.su.
To learn more about listserver commands, send message
help
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3. WHERE CAN I GET MODULA-2 COMPILERS?
3.1 Where can I get commercial Modula-2 compilers?
In this section, the listings are by name of the manufacturer (marked M) or
distributor (marked D.)
ACE Associated Computer Experts bv
activity M
products Compilers, Operating systems and Consultancy
platforms SPARC, 68K, Transputer and more
office Van Eeghenstraat 100
1071 GL Amsterdam
The Netherlands
contact Kees Dik
e-mail kees@ace.nl
voice +31 20 6646416
fax +31 20 6750389
A+L AG
activity D
products Compilers, applications, and books.
platforms various
office Daderiz 61
CH-2540 Grenchen
Switzerland
contact Albert Meier
e-mail aplusl@spectraweb.ch
voice +41/65/52 03 11
fax +41/65/52 03 79
Byte Works, Inc.
activity MD
products ORCA/Modula-2 for the Apple IIGS
offices 8000 Wagon Mound Dr. NW
Albuquerque NM 87120
contact Mike Westerfield
voice (505) 898-8183
e-mail MikeW50@AOL.COM
Edinburgh Portable Compilers, Ltd
activity MD
products EPC Modula-2
platforms SCO Unix V.[34],
Motorola 88000 UNIX V.[34],
SPARC UNIX & Solaris,
RS/6000 AIX
office1 17 Alva Street
Edinburgh, EH2 4PH, UK
contact Kathleen Smith
e-mail support@epc.ed.ac.uk
voice +441 131 225 6262
fax +441 131 225 6644
office2 20 Victor Square
Scotts Valley
California 95066, USA
USA tel 1-800-EPC-1110
Gardens Point
activity MD
products Gardens Point Modula-2
platforms Various Unix, including Linux and FreeBSD, DJGPP, EMX (OS/2)
and MS-DOS (no Mac)
office Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Branch
2 George Street
POB 2434 Brisbane
Queensland Australia 4001
contact John Gough
e-mail GOUGH@qut.edu.au
contact Jeffrey Ledermann
e-mail lederman@dstc.qut.edu.au
web http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/CompSci/PLAS/GPM/
voice +61 7-864-2132
fax +61 7-864-1801
see mail list and net sections
Mandeno Granville Electronics Ltd
activity MD
products 80x51: Mod51 - 80x51 Cross Compiler, ISO extensions
platforms DOS Hosted
office 128 Grange Rd
Auckland 3
New Zealand
contact
e-mail
voice +64 9 6300 558
fax +64 9 6301 720
Metrowerks
activity M
products standalone and MPW hosted compilers; Code Warrier environment
platforms Macintosh
NOTE: Modula-2 NO LONGER SUPPORTED, but probably still available from:
Bookmasters
POB 2039 Mansfield
OH, USA 44905
Tel +1 (800) 247-6553
Fax +1 (419) 281 6883
(see p1 GmbH)
The Mill Hill & Canterbury Group, Ltd.
activity MD
products 32-bit Modula-2 with Oberon extensions (non-ISO)
platforms OS/2 with full API incl. SOM/WPS and PM
Note: Object oriented language extensions similar to Oberon-2
contact Neuhoff, Juergen
e-mail 76721.303@CompuServe.com OR mhc@webcom.com
WWW http://www.webcom.com/mhc/welcome.html
demo Try: ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/dev32/MOD201H.ZIP
ftp-os2.cdrom.com
ftp.leo.org
ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/lang/mod201j.zip
CompuServe: GO CODEPORT (File Name MOD201J.ZIP)
ModulaWare
activity MD
prod/plat Unix (680x0, SunSparc, I386, Linux, OS/9): MCS Modula-2 V4.5
DEC VAX/OpenVMS & Alpha AXP/OpenVMS: MVR & MaX V4.0
DOS/Windows: OM2 V1.1 (Modula-2 & Oberon-2 Compiler)
DOS/Windows: Mithril V2 GUI/IDE/OOP-API for OM2
All platforms: OM2-XDS V2.06: (Oberon-2 and ISO Modula-2,
generating ANSI C, with ANSI C source of ISO Modula-2 library)
office1 ModulaWare
La Chanenche
F-04340 Meolans Revel
France
tel/fax +33 92.81.30.99
contact Guenter Dotzel
e-mail 100023.2527@compuserve.com
office2 ModulaWare
Haselbachstr. 113
D-97653 Bischofsheim
Germany
tel/Fax +49 (9772) 7101
p1 GmbH
activity MD
products MPW and Metrowerks Code Warrier hosted ISO compliant compilers
platforms Macintosh
office Hogenbergstrasse. 20
80686 Munich
Germany
contact Elmar Henne
e-mail eh@p1.space.net
voice +49 89-546 13 10
fax +49 89-580 25 97
PMI Software
activity MD
products Modula-2 tools; dealer for Mandino Granville, XDS (see listings)
platforms DOS and OS/2
contact John McMonagle
office PO Box 8402
Green Bay WI 54311
voice 414-468-6040
fax 414-465-0464
bbs 414-465-1656
e-mail johnm@online.dct.com
web http://www.dct.com/~johnm/
Real Time Associates Ltd.
activity D
products Compilers, books, and training courses
platforms numerous
office Canning House 59
Canning Road Croyden Surrey
CR0 6QF UK
voice (+44) 081 656 7333
fax (+44) 081 655 0401
Stony Brook Software
activity MD
products Stonybrook Modula-2
platforms DOS/Windows (32-bit Windows ISO compiler coming RSN)
office 187 E. Wilbur, Suite 4
Thousand Oaks
CA 91360, USA
contact Norman Black
e-mail 70274.611@compuserve.com
voice +1 (805) 496-5837
BBS +1 (805) 379-3357
TERRA Datentechnik
activity D
products Logitech/Multiscope support
platforms DOS
office Bahnhofstrasse 33
CH-8703 Erlenbach
Switzerland
voice +41 01 910 35 55
fax +41 01 910 19 92
bbs +41 01 910 35 31
TopSpeed Corp (formerly Clarion)
activity MD
products Topspeed Modula-2
CDBW (has Windows VID, can link with TopSpeed M2
Windows debugger WID available on Compuserve or on BBS)
platforms DOS, DOS Extender, MS-Windows 3.1 (with some work)
OS/2
Plans: (According to rumour) will sell Modula-2 only as an add-on to
Clarion for Windows and not as a separate product.
office1 Clarion Software (Europe) Ltd.
Clare House, Thompsons Close
Harpenden, Herts, UK, AL5 4ES
voice +441 582 763 200
fax +441 582 768 222
tech sup +441 582 763 999
BBS +441 582 763 666
office2 150 East Sample Road
Pompano Beach
FL USA 33064
voice 1-800-354-5444 (free call in US)
voice2 1-305-785-4555 EXT. 105
fax 1-305-946-1650
BBS 1-305-785-2594
retail http://www.singnet.com.sg/customers/cirrus/cirrus1.htm
xTech Ltd
activity M
products Native XDS-x86 - Modula-2/Oberon-2 compiler for x86 platform
XDS-C - Modula-2/Oberon-2 to ANSI C translator
platforms Native XDS-x86 - IBM PC (OS/2, Linux, Win32 (NT/95) editions)
XDS-C - IBM PC (the same plus SCO Unix, FreeBSD)
Sun Sparc (Solaris)
HP9000 (HP-UX)
SGI (Irix)
DEC Alpha (OSF/1)
e-mail xds@iis.nsk.su
see ModulaWare and PMI (above) and the shareware/demo section
(below) for product availability
XDS WWW home page:
http://www.iis.nsk.su/xtech/xds/ or
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xds.html (US mirror)
XDS mailing list
send "subscribe xds" to majordomo@listserv@iis.nsk.su
evalutaion kits available from ftp://ftp.dct.com/pub/pmi/ :
xdsn214_w95.exe Native XDS-x86 2.14 unlimited pre-release for Win32
(expires on November 1st, 1996)
xdsn213_linux.tgz Native XDS-x86 2.13 unlimited pre-release for Linux
xdsn212_os2.zip Native XDS-x86 2.12 unlimited pre-release for OS/2
xdsc211_os2.exe XDS-C demo for OS/2
xdsc211_w95.exe XDS-C demo for Win95/NT
xdsc211_linux.tgz XDS-C demo for Linux
also see ModulaWare and PMI (above) for product availability
3.2 Where can I get a free/shareware compiler on the net?
Note: A net project to produce an OS/2 version of Modula-2 has apparently
died in the light of commercial releases.
Fitted Software Tools Modula-2 for DOS
ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/fst/fst-40s.lzh
ftp://cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages/fst-40s.lzh
P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA
contact: Roger Carvalho
e-mail: rogerc@metronet.com
snail P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA
Note: This compiler was developed by Roger Carvalho but is no longer
actively supported. It essentially conforms to PIM version 3, but also
supports some simple and interesting OOP extensions.
P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA
Gardens Point Modula-2 for DOS, Linux and FreeBSD
ftp://pluto.fit.qut.edu.au/pub/gpm
ftp://ftp.fit.qut.edu.au//pub/gpm_modula2/
ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/gpm
(The EMX version runs under OS/2 in protected mode and can be used to
generate OS/2 PM applications. It relies on the GNU tools from the EMX
package ported by Eberhard Mattes mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
which can be found at: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/os2/ and various
other mirror sites.
MacLogimo for the Macintosh
ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/mac/maclogimo/
MacMETH Modula-2 for Macintosh
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/macmeth/
ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/mac/macMETH/
MOCKA - Modula Compiler Karlsruhe (Non ISO)
Universitaet Karlsruhe
Institut fuer Programm- und Datenstrukturen
Vincenz-Priessnitz-Strasse 3
D-76128 Karlsruhe (FRG)
Phone: *-49-721-608 6088 FAX: *-49-721-691462
contact: Thilo Gaul
email: [modula|gaul]@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de
SUN 4 | SUN OS | SPARC |
SUN 4 | Solaris2.x/SunOS 5.0| SPARC |
DEC Station | ULTRIX | R3000, R2000 (MIPS) |
Silicon | IRIX | R3000, R2000 (MIPS) |
Graphics | | |
Sony NEWS | News | MC 68020 with 68881 |
SUN 3 | SUN OS | MC 68020 with 68881 |
HP 9000/300 | HPUX | MC 68020 with 68881 |
HP 9000/700 | HPUX | C back end |
RS6000 | AIX | C back end |
PC | Linux | 80386 | +
PC | 386BSD | 80386 | +
C-back end | UNIX | different |
translates | | |
M-2 To C | | |
The versions marked with a + are free; no order form must be sent, no
license fee to be paid. If you use them, please send an email to
modula@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de.
For more information have a look to
http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~modula
See also ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/modula-2/ or
ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/mirrors/tsx-11.mit.edu/packag
es/modula-2/ for a Linux version.
Turbo Modula-2 for Amiga
(contact Amritpal Mann, Turbo@econet.demon.co.uk)
Amiga Turbo Modula-2 may be obtained from your favourite AmiNet site as
the following files:
/pub/aminet/dev/m2/TurboV1.3Part1.lha
/pub/aminet/dev/m2/TurboV1.3Part2.lha
Ulm's Modula-2 System for Sun3 Workstations
ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/ulm/sun3/
xTech Ltd
( Windows 95/NT, OS-2, Linux native code and translators. ISO compatible.)
Makes demo and pre-release versions with some restrictions available. The
download site for all versions is:
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xdsavail.html#demo
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Rick Sutcliffe Math/Cmpt Trinity Western University <http://www.twu.ca/>
CDN Chair WG13, FAQ maintainer comp.lang.modula-2
<http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/rsutcliffe.html> <Not speaking officially>