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- ááááááááááááááá Modula-2 Frequently Asked Questions
-
- What is new in version 2.28(2003 10 10)?
- A couple of new websites have sprung up and are indicated in section
- 4.1 and 4.2 One of the sites previously mentioned in 4.9 is gone, so
- the answers have been renumbered. What was in section 4.10 has
- vanished behind a firewayy (or into the bit bucket) so the rest of
- that section has been renumbered. Traffic to the Modula-2.com site is
- up again, and so is interest in universities printing the shareware
- text. The GNU Modula-2 version seems to be alive, and their web link
- has been alered slightly.
-
- What was new in version 2.27(2003 03 26)?
- Very little to be honest. The traffic to Modula-2.com has declined
- dramatically and few people seem to be reading the FAQ except for a
- handful of students. A new answer, A6 has been added in 1.11. An
- invalid Gardens Point URL has been changed. PMI has been removed. The
- StonyBrook Section has been revised with new information. We'll prune
- the dead stuff again in June, and no doubt make it a lot shorter.
-
-
-
- SUMMARY:
- 1. Answers to many questions about Modula-2 as a programming notation
- may be found in the shareware textbook. As always, users should pay
- the shareware fee. See section 1.4.
-
- 2. Answers to most other frequently asked questions about Modula-2
- will be collected by Rick Sutcliffe at Trinity Western University and
- included in this document from time to time as it is revised.
-
- 3. Submissions should be mailed to -- rsutc@arjay.bc.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.
-
- 4. I will update this summary file and post to the newsgroups
- comp.lang.modula2 and to comp.answers and news.answers
-
- 5. The latest version will always be available in a Nisus (Mac) form in
- http://www.arjay.bc.ca/Modula-2/m2faq.html.
- It should also be available from the site rtfm.mit.edu in plain text
- form as
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/computer-lang/Modula2-faq/part1
- and as
- ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/computer-lang/Modula2-faq/part2
-
-
- 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
-
-
- 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. Modula-2 is
- small, expressive, easy to learn, to write, and to read.
-
-
- 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 Algol-W, Pascal,
- Modula, and Oberon.
-
-
- 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 and corrected edition of the shareware text
- as of 2003 10 10 is atá http://www.arjay.bc.ca
- Mirrors (for the text, not the FAQ--some may be out of date):
- 1. TWU Main Site http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/index.html
- 2. TWU CS Students (Internal only) http://www.csc.twu.ca/rsbook/index.html
- 3. Brighton, UKá http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/index.htm
-
-
- 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 (Component Pascal),
- 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 Standard Pascal?
- A. Modula-2 has separately compiled library modules, and makes much
- less use of blocks (begin...) than Standard 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. The ISO
- standard version has OO and Generics. Extended Pascals may have some
- of these features.
-
-
- 1.7 What is ISO Standard Modula-2?
- A. A committee of ISO JTC1/SC22/WG13 with delegates from several
- countries met starting in 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. The Object oriented extensions and Generic extensions have
- also been voted on and are official. The committee itself has been
- disbanded, its work complete.
-
- 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.Martin Schoenhacker of Vienna was the last convenor.
-
- 1.7.5 When was the last WG13 meeting?
- A1. It was March 17-18 1997 in Linz, Austria. For more details,
- follow http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/meetings.html
-
- 1.7.6 When is the next WG13 meeting?
- A1. No meeting is currently on the schedule. One may be held if
- necessary to do routine maintenance on the standards. In the
- meantime, the committee has been disbanded.
-
- 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 base 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 use formal methods to do any design work.
-
- 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 ISO library code to port?
- A. Yes, this is available from Rick Sutcliffe, the FAQ maintainer. He
- has done an ISO I/O library for the Mac, and StonyBrook has ported
- this to their system. Anyone else is welcome to do a port provided:
- (1) TWU gets a license to the software produced (2) All code changes
- are marked and submitted to Rick Sutcliffe for the benefit of anyone
- else who wants to do a port.
-
- 1.7.10 Can I get copies of the grammer?
- A1. Yes, in http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/Appendices/Ap3.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/rsbook/Appendices/Ap2.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 has WG13 done?
- A. WG13 has completed two additional standards (separate from the
- main one) for (a) object oriented Modula-2 and (b) generic
- programming facilities. Older versions of the generics proposal 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 What is (was) Top Speed Modula-2
- See also 1.9. Eventually, Top Speed merged with Clarion, a maker of
- database products, who used Modula-2 as their DB language, and for a
- time sold Top Speed separately. Later still, this became
- SoftVelocity, but the Modula-2 compiler has vanished. A fuller
- history is available at http://www.attryde.com/clarion/.
-
- 1.11 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 has been the language of choice in much
- of Europe, though Java and C++ are making inroads. Modula-2 has
- features that make it superior to other languages for large projects
- and for programming and real time controllers.
-
-
- A2.Here is a reply by Andrew Trevorrow (akt@kagi.com) who is the
- author of the Macintosh programs written in p1 Modula-2: OzTex
- (standard Tex implementation on the Mac) X-Words (a meta-Scrabble
- word game), Anagrams (a fast and friendly anagram generator), LifeLab
- (a software laboratory for 2D cellular automata.) His home page is:
- http://www.trevorrow.com/
-
- "Back in 92-93 I worked for the Australian National Uni's Research
- School of Earth Sciences writing Noble, a large suite of programs to
- control mass spectrometers and analyze all the data. Everything was
- written in Modula-2 (the only reason I took the job!).
- In fact, one of the reasons I decided to try making a living from
- shareware was so that I could keep using Modula-2."
-
- A3. General Motors and its subsidiary Delco do their programming in
- General Motors Modula-2.
-
- A4. 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 139944áááááááááááááááááááááááááá
-
- A5. Here is an answer sent in by a developer:
- Magic Mouse Productions
- 12615 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
- Inverness, CA 94937 USA
- 1-415-669-7010
- http://www.magicmouse.com
-
- The following products were made using Modula-2. The programs are
- all about 100,000 lines long, and 99% Modula-2, with about 1%
- assembler code for performance in critical areas.
-
- Flying Colors 2, Anime Designer DragonBall, Action Designer
- Ultraman, Tamagotchi
- Sketch, Curious George Paint & Print Set -- all paint and
- creativity programs.
- Gorgeous Mail -- a new years card making program
- JuniorNet web activities -- various creativity activities for
- JuniorNet web subscription service
- Discus -- CD label making program
- Web Workshop Deluxe -- Web site design product
-
- A5A. Here is a later rant sent in by the same person.
- We make commercial software using Modula-2, and have been doing so
- since the first appearance of the Logitech "Multiscope" compiler
- about 17 years ago, and about a million lines later we are still
- using Modula-2 to great effect.
-
- I am proud to announce that Web Workshop Pro, a kids website editor,
- is about to go "golden" and be released to the public. The program,
- written in 98% Modula-2 (with a small assembler section), is
- reliable, fast, and very efficiently coded. An almost identical
- product in feature set and user interface style (but not as good)
- called Site Central was written in C, and is 4 times larger in
- executable. There is no better way to compare languages than to see
- two similar products implemented in the same environment (macintosh +
- windows), and see the result.
-
- We use the excellent StonyBrook compiler (a fully integrated
- development environment) for Windows, and the wonderful p1 compiler
- under the Macintosh MPW development environment.
-
- We have a porting tool which converts between the two compilers,
- although recent improvements to the StonyBrook compiler make it
- almost possible to have identical source code.
-
- We have implemented a quickdraw emulation layer for windows which
- allows programs to run identically between macintosh and windows
- platforms. This very layer eluded a very large company years ago,
- and is crucial to having a single code base that operates on the mac
- and windows in an identical manner.
-
- 100,000 lines of code, about 10 months to do. one programmer. Less
- than 100 total bugs. I have an 800kb demo if anybody wants to have
- one e-mailed.
-
- Until I get a chance to build a compiler for my BEADS language, which
- will reduce programming effort by at least 10:1, Modula-2 is the
- simplest, cleanest, easiest to read,
- tends-to-build-a-reliable-product language on the planet.á
-
- Java stinks! Modula-2 rules! (editor's note: Ouch!)
-
-
-
- A6. Frank Schoonjans mention MedCalc (statistical software for
- Windows, http://www.medcalc.be, developed using Stony Brook Modula-2,
- his main work.
-
- A7. The following survey results were once 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,á
- Australia,
- NZ, USAááá
- 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 ModulAware.com
- (HP OpenVMS Alpha)
- customer enquiries Logitech (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
-
- A7. Finally, the keeper of the FAQ notes that he still gets contracts
- to evaluate Modula-2 code in takeover situations and the like.
- Details cannot be made public, but include code written for
- telecommunication and other automatic systems.
-
-
- 1.12 Why do universities use Modula-2 for teaching instead of C or C++?
- A1. 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. Modula-2 is easier to write in, easier to
- read (it reads left to right) and easier to debug. It lends itself
- well to software engineering. Modula-2 is a higher level language
- than C++, particularly with respect to pointers, all of which have
- types that depend on what is pointed to, and that can be treated as
- addresses only by flagging this fact in the code. A good computing
- science department (such as the one at Trinity Western University,
- where I teach,) tries to inculcate a way of thinking (as a software
- engineer, not a hacker) and beyond that, a breadth of ideas. At TWU
- C, C++, Java, Prolog and other languages, are taught in appropriate
- courses, and on a variety of platforms but not to beginners. Frankly,
- if I had to switch, my first choice would be Ada or Oberon, and my
- second Java (if it ever became cross platform.) If I had to try
- teaching beginners C++, I would retire.
-
- A2. Popularity no more implies soundness or superiority when
- considering tools such as Modula-2 and C++ than it does when
- considering hardware (Pentium vs PowerPC), operating systems (Windows
- vs Mac) and applications (Word vs Nisus). Marketing means selling the
- sizzle of appearance not the steak of content; those who know this
- and can apply it consistently win the marketing wars with inferior or
- even poor products. The market situation is no reason to give up on
- the basics of sound tools and methodology. If anything the cirisis
- implied by the inability of large companies to maintain poorly
- designed and bloated software and OSs implies that the industry needs
- to return to basics before it is going to advance much farther.
-
-
- 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. I/O is found in several
- type-specific modules, so linkers only patch in the I/O code that's
- needed, making programs smaller and faster. This is in sharp contrast
- to the versatile but resource hungry printf in C.
-
- 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 YAFL?
- A. This is yet another OO and Generic derivative of Modula-2. The
- homepage for the language is at http://www.phidani.be/yafl/index.html
-
-
- 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 Amiga lists
-
- 2.3.1 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.To subscribe, send mail to
- majordomo@virginia.edu containing the message "subscribe
- yourid@youraddress.yourdom amiga-m2".
-
- 2.2.2 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.
-
-
-
- 2.3 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.
-
-
- 2.4 Win32
- To join, send mail to listserver@nhm-wien.ac.at
- with a blank subject line and the body Subscribe m2-win95-nt-lá
- Maintainer: Peter Stadler
-
-
- 2.5 ModulaTor
- This is a regular publication by Guenter Dotzel of ModulAware.
- Back issues are available at: http://www.modulaware.com/mdltr_.htm
-
-
- 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.)
-
-
- 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
-
-
- Excelsior, LLC (replaces XDS)
- activity M
- products Native XDS-x86 - Modula-2/Oberon-2 2.32 compiler for x86
- (Windows, OS/2, Linux)
- XDS-C - Modula-2/Oberon-2 "via C" cross compiler (multiple platforms)
- H2D (freeware) translates C header files to M2 Def Mods
- Portable run-time library in C source code form
- POSIX and Win32 API definition modules platforms PC/OS/2 V3
- V4 (Warp), PC/Win95, PC/WNT PC/Linux,
- Sun/Sparc Solaris, Sun/Sparc SunOS, HP PA-Risc/HP-UX,
- others on request. (Mac no longer supported.)
-
- e-mail info@excelsior-usa.com
- also sold by ModulAware, and Real Time Associtaes
- check the shareware/demo section (below) for product availability
- Excelsior WWW home page:
- http://www.excelsior-usa.com/
- fully functional evaluation kits are available from the site
- also see ModulaWare, and Real Time Associates for product availability
-
-
- 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
- webáááááá
- http://www.citi.qut.edu.au/research/plas/projects/gardens_point_modula.jsp
- voice +61 7-864-2132
- fax +61 7-864-1801
- see mail list and net sections
-
-
- Mandeno Granville Electronics Ltd
- activity MD
- products Mod51 : 80x51 Cross Compiler, ISO extensions
- Optimised for Embedded Control, Includes some
- IEC1131 Extensions.
- DbgX51 : Remote Debugger for Mod51 Compiler
- IcePGM : ICE and Programmers, for FLASH cores,
- using Mod51 platforms DOS Hosted
- office 128 Grange Rd
- Auckland 3
- New Zealand
- contact
- e-mail Mod51@DesignTools.co.nz
- voice +64 9 6300 558
- fax +64 9 6301 720
- webáááááá http://www.designtools.co.nz/
-
- The Mill Hill & Canterbury Corporation, Ltd.
- activity MD
- product Canterbury Modula-2 for OS/2 ( PIM, non-ISO,
- object oriented extensions similar to Oberon-2,
- SOM/WPS and Presentation Manager APIs )
- platform OS/2
- product Canterbury Modula-2 for Java 1.1 or 1.2 ( PIM, non-ISO,
- object oriented extensions similar to Oberon-2 )
- platform Any operating system with Java, such as
- Windows-95/98/NT, OS/2, MacOS (incl. Metrowerks), Unix etc.
- product NITEK MATHPAK 87/32 for Canterbury Modula-2 OS/2
- platform OS/2
- contact S.Neuhoff
- e-mail mhc@webcom.com
- WWWáááááá http://www.mhccorp.com/modrelease.html
- demoááááá http://www.webcom.com/mhc/java.html
- office P.O.Box 4310 Colchester CO12WL England
-
-
- ModulAware
- activity MD
- prod/plat Compaq OpenVMS Alpha: Modula-2 and Oberon-2
- 64 bit native-code compiler, MaX V5.02 and A2O V3.0, and
- 64 bit Oberon System V4
- Compaq OpenVMS VAX: Modula-2
- 32 bit native-code compiler, MVR V4.16
- office1 ModulAware
- La Chanenche
- F-04340 Meolans-Revel
- France
- tel/fax +33 492.813 099
- contact Guenter Dotzel
- e-mailááá gd@modulAware.com
- webáááááá www.modulaware.com
-
-
- p1 GmbH
- activity MD
- products MPW and Metrowerks Code Warrier hosted ISO compliant compilers
- NOTE: Current versions of MPW have odds and sods for ISO Modula-2
- written by R. Sutcliffe, for your editing enjoyment
- 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
- webáááááá http://www.awiedemann.de/compiler/index.html
-
-
- 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
- Tel: +44 20 8656 7333
- Fax: +44 20 8656 7334
-
-
- Stony Brook Software
- activity MD
- products Stonybrook Modula-2 ISO compatible. (Environment, editor,
- resource editor, librarian, context sensitive help, optimizing compiler,
- linker, debugger, many extra libraries, including COM, RTL sources)
- Also offers Pascal+
- platforms 16bit DOS, 32bit DOS extended, 16bit Windows, 32bit Windows
- 32-bit Linux on IA-32 processors, 32-bit Solaris/SunOS on SPARC
- processors.
- office 187 E. Wilbur, Suite 4
- Thousand Oaks
- CA 91360, USA
- contact Norman Black
- e-mailááá sales@stonybrooksoftware.com
- Home page: http://www.stonybrooksoftware.com
- voice +1 (805) 496-5837
- BBS +1 (805) 379-3357
- FAX +1 (805) 496-7429
-
-
- TERRA Datentechnik
- activity MD
- products Logitech/Multiscope Modula-2 and support
- Distributor for Stony Brook Modula-2 (see listing)
- Logitech compatible libraries for Stony Brook Modula-2
- Real and protected mode ROM tools for 80x86 based embeeded
- Modula-2 systems
- TERRA M2VMS/Alpha and M2VMS/VAX
- platforms 16bit DOS, 32bit DOS extended, 16bit Windows, 32bit Windows,
- DEC OpenVMS/Alpha and OpenVMS/VAX
- office Bahnhofstrasse 33b
- CH-8703 Erlenbach
- Switzerland
- voice +41 01 910 35 55
- fax +41 01 910 19 92
- bbs +41 01 910 35 31
- e-mail M2Master@TerraTerra.ch
- webáááááá http://www.TerraTerra.ch/
-
-
-
-
-
- 3.2 Where can I get a free/shareware compiler on the net?
-
-
- Fitted Software Tools (FST) Modula-2 for DOS
- ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/fst/fst-40s.lzh
- contact: Roger Carvalho
- e-mail: res09tkd@verizon.co
- 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
- Warning: A reader cautions that FST may not work at all if you have
- an AMI BIOS.
-
- GCC Version
- Title: m2f
- Version: 4.2
- Entered-date: 5NOV01
- Description: a complete Modula-2 compiler based on 2nd Edition PIM
- Keywords: Modula-2 compiler linux
- Author: gaius@glam.ac.uk (Gaius Mulley)
- Maintained-by: gaius@glam.ac.uk
- Site: http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk
- Platforms: gcc
- Copying-policy: GPL
- available in source & binary in rpm or tar.gz format from
- Features:
- + Full debugging via emacs/gdb
- + -students flag performs extra semantic checking
- for dangerous novice programming styles.
- áááá
- NOTE: Mide3de2 is a windows IDE for the FST modula-2 compiler. It is
- available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/mide3de2/
-
- GNU Version
- An earlier attempt to do this flopped, but a new attempt
- is being coordinated at
- http://floppsie.comp.glam.ac.uk/Glamorgan/gaius/web/GNUModula2.html
-
- Gardens Point Modula-2 for DOS, Linux and FreeBSD
- 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
- http://www.ito.umnw.ethz.ch/SysEcol/SimSoftware/SimSoftware.html
- It's also available on CD from: http://www.celestin.com/
- Note that MacMETH is also released as part of RAMSES
- http://www.ito.umnw.ethz.ch/SysEcol/SimSoftware/SimSoftware.html#RAMSES.
- RAMSES provides a full featured programming environment for the Macintosh,
- containing all of MacMETH (compilers, linkers, symbolic break debugger,
- macro editor or language support for Alpha editor) plus hundreds more of
- libary modules useful in the context of programing and for scientific
- applications. RAMSES contains also the 'Dialog Machine', a platform
- independent GUI (see
- http://www.ito.umnw.ethz.ch/SysEcol/SimSoftware/RAMSES/DialogMachine.html).
- 'Dialog Machine' implementations exist for MacOS, GEM (no longer
- available), Windows (3.1 .. up to current versions), and Unix. All
- software we have developed, is offered via the internet as freeware.
- Contact: Andreas Fischlin andreas.fischlin@ito.umnw.ethz.ch
-
- Megamax Modula-2 for the Atari
- This is freeware now and comes with complete source including
- compiler. It runs on all Atari Computers an compatibles and on
- emulators such as MagicMac (Macintosh) and MagiCPC (PC-
- compatibles). The documentation is entirely in german. Available
- from:
- ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de//atari/programming/modula/Megamax_Modula-2_DevEnv.ZIP
-
- 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://i44w3.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/packages/modula-2/
- for a Linux version.
-
-
- Ulm's Modula-2 System m2c (non-ISO)
- web page:á http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/modula/
- all distributions come along with all sources which may be
- freely distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- SPARCv8 / Solaris 2.x
- áááá ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/ulm/sun4/
- MC68020 / SunOS 4.x
- áááá ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/ulm/sun3/
- contact: Andreas Borchert borchert@mathematik.uni-ulm.de
-
- Excelsior, LLC
- ( Windows 95/NT, OS-2, Linux native code and "via C" compilers. ISO
- compatible.)
- Makes demo and pre-release versions with some restrictions available.
- The download site for all versions is:
- http://www.excelsior-usa.com
-
- M2Amiga (Open source Modula-2 Compiler for the Commodore Amiga)
- Sources and Binaries can be obtained from http://m2amiga.claudio.ch/
-
-
-
- 3.3 How about a Summary of Commercial ISO Products for the Major
- Microcomputer platforms?
-
- MS-DOS:
- GPM, ModulAware, Stony Brook
- Windows95/NT:
- Stony Brook, XDS
- OS/2:
- Mill Hill, XDS
- MacOS:
- p1
-
- 3.4 Is there such a thing as a decompiler for Modula-2?
- Nope. But feel free to write one. Be sure to include a facility to
- produce the planning
- documents from which the Modula-2 code could be constructed and one
- to find out what
- the users wanted before the planning documents were written.
-
- 3.5 Is there any other free or cheap stuff available?
- A1. The ISO modules are; beyond that, contact the manufacturer.
-
- A2. BURKS (the Brighton University Resource Kit for Students) is a non-profit
- set of 2 CDs available from the University of Brighton (UK) or the George
- Washington University (USA), price UKP 5.00 / US $8.50 (plus shipping).
- Now in its third year, the current (3rd) edition has kindly been sponsored
- by GEC-Marconi and ROCC Computers.
-
- Aimed at Computer Science students, it provides around 1.1Gb of material
- including compilers, tutorials and reference material for over 20 programming
- languages; a copy of the Free Online Dictionary of Computing with over 11,000
- definitions; a Linux distribution, together with a set of Linux manuals; FAQs,
- tutorials and specifications for Internet and PC related topics (e.g. HTML,
- FTP, XMS, Winsock, storage devices, modems...), and a large selection of
- MS-DOS and Windows software.
-
- Modula2-related material includes the FST and GPM compilers, Rick Sutcliffe's
- "Modula-2: Abstractions for Data and Programming Structures", the Coronado
- tuorial, the Modula-2 FAQ, and the GPM Language Reference Manual.
-
- The entire collection is available online at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/.
- Modula2-related material is at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/burks/language/modula2/.
- Ordering information (including shipping costs to various destinations)
- is also available online (at http://burks.bton.ac.uk/ordering.htm).
-
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- <http://www.arjay.bc.ca> for Christian SF, books on Modula-2 and
- Ethics in Technology. Philology site at <http://www.opundo.com>
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