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- From: stephan@STACK.URC.TUE.NL (Stephan Eggermont)
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- Date: 26 Aug 92 11:16:48 GMT
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- To: Modula2 List <INFO-M2%UCF1VM.BITNET@cmsa.Berkeley.EDU>
- Subject: Re: Oberon-2 Compiler
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
- Organization: MCGV Stack, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands.
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- In article <9208250737.aa02868@thama1.apgea.army.mil> you write:
- : I am trying to find out what interest there is in a native code Oberon-2
- : compiler for the 80386 running under MS-DOS that generates pure
- : executables (not loadable modules like Oberon386 from ETH).
- :
- : Given that it generated 386 (not 80x86) code:
-
- I suppose you also want to support memory beyond 640k?
-
- : How interested would you be: (not at all, moderately, extremely)
-
- Extremely, but I'm only a student, so financial issues have some influence.
- How are you going to arrange garbage-collection, I wouldn't like to have to
- write a collector for every program I write.
-
- : What would you consider a fair price: (<$100, $100 <= x <= $250, >$250)
-
- This depends very much on the libraries you want to include, and the compiler
- efficiency. And of course the development environment. If you want your
- compiler to become a mass-market product, you have to price it below $100
- (and do something about those awful uppercase keywords), and you need
- something like the Borland environment.
-
- : Would price be a deciding factor in a purchase?
-
- Yes.
-
- : Would you be less interested if it required a separate linker?
-
- No, but at least try to integrate it in an environment. Of course I don't
- have that many library functions I would have to rewrite.
-
- : How interested would you be in an Oberon-2 to C++ translator?
-
- Not.
-
- : How interested would you be in an Oberon-2 to Ada translator?
-
- Not.
-
- : Please describe why you are (or are not) interested in Oberon-2. Also,
- : please describe why you would want to have an Oberon-2 compiler.
-
- Oberon-2 is an elegant language, and there are some programs I want to write,
- for which Oberon-2 would be an adequate language.
-
- : Please mail responses directly to me (thutt@thama1.apgea.army.mil), and
- : I will post the results I receive. All answers will remain anonymous.
-
- Please keep me informed on the progress you make.
-
- Stephan
- stephan@blade.stack.urc.tue.nl
-