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- From: hudson@cs.umass.edu (Rick Hudson)
- Subject: Re: What is the current status of GNU Modula 3?
- In-Reply-To: lim@soda.berkeley.edu's message of 2 Sep 1992 00:28:59 GMT
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- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 15:15:19 GMT
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- >>>>> On 2 Sep 1992 00:28:59 GMT, lim@soda.berkeley.edu (Lincoln Myers) said:
- Lincoln> Is someone working right now on gm3? Is there a way to find out more about
- Lincoln> what it is, when it will be, beta testing, all that?
-
- Yes, the gm3 project is alive and well. Right now it consists of
- the following University of Massachusetts related people:
-
- Eliot Moss, Rick Hudson, Amer Diwan, Tony Hosking and Norman Walsh
-
- I will only make estimated of when external alpha testing will begin a month
- after it has begun. Ask me again at the first of the year.
-
- The compiler will be a native code compiler utilizing a lot of the gcc
- backend. One technical paper concerning Modula-3 garbage collection support
- is easily available
-
- @InProceedings{DMH91,
- author = "Amer Diwan and J. Eliot B. Moss and Richard L. Hudson",
- title = "Compiler Support for Garbage Collection in a Statically
- Typed Language",
- pages = "273--282",
- booktitle = "Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation",
- year = 1992,
- organization = "SIGPLAN",
- publisher = "ACM Press",
- address = "San Francisco, California",
- month = "June"
- }
-
- Hope this helps.
- --
-
- Richard L. Hudson, Research Associate
- University Computing Services
- Lederle Graduate Research Center
- University of Massachusetts
- Amherst, MA 01003
- (413) 545-1220; Hudson@cs.umass.edu
-