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- From: grlw1@phx.cam.ac.uk (G.R.L. Walker)
- Subject: Re: Modula 2/3
- Message-ID: <1992Nov12.111817.7166@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 11:18:17 GMT
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- |> crj10@phx.cam.ac.uk (Clive Jones) writes:
- |> : In article <1992Nov11.124610.22046@infodev.cam.ac.uk>, jna10@cl.cam.ac.uk (J.N. Abley) writes:
- |> : > And while I'm here, has anyone ported a modula 2/3 compiler to the Arc?
- |> :
- |> : I believe a standalone Modula-2 compiler for the Arc exists - it has certainly
- |> : been mentioned since the days of Arthur, and the old APCS!
- I heard, from a man who had been there at the time, that Acorn wrote a compiler for a subset (_very_ sub...)
- of Modula2, which they used for, amongst other things, developing the pc emulator in its original form. Then
- they threw it away, basically, having left tantalising hints about the possibility of its existence around
- to tempt us all. Ah well, maybe Gnu will implement it for us, and we can just port it across; maybe someone
- wants to hack the SRC version so that it produces the intermediate code that gcc uses as its output, so it
- can be chained into the last half of the gnu compilers? It'd be nice...
- Rich!
- (disclaimer: almost everything above is a lie)
-