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From: lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: What Libraries are Available
Summary: Modula-2 Libraries that are available
Keywords: modula-2,libraries
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Date: 4 Jul 89 01:42:53 GMT
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I've just gotten onto Netnews for the first time so I hope this message isn't 
hopelessly out-of-date. One of Modula's problems has always been the lack of 
suitable "off-the-shelf" high quality libraries. For basic data structures in
 generic form there's always the book store. There are a few good books that
 sort-of cover decent libraries but you do have to be careful - often times
 they are CS101 books on data structures instead of an encapsulation of a
 library.

There's quite a bit of software that's been done at ETH Zurich, but most of it
 is unknown outside of that institution. There are other universities that have
done work in Modula (unfortunately I can't remember their names off the top of
 my head). The universities are probably the best bet for low-cost libraries.

You might want to consider looking at "The Modula-2 Software Component Library"
which is a four volume series covering abstract data types in Modula-2. This is
published by Springer-Verlag. I won't hype it (since I wrote the series) but
if you are interested, I have versions of the software available for the
 Macintosh and one of the PC Modula-2 compilers (TopSpeed).

Another source of information on libraries would be various ads in "The Journal
of Pascal, Ada, and Modula-2" which is heavily devoted to coverage of Modula-2.
They also have a bulletin board from which you can download their software.

Hope all of this helps.

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