Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!lilink!intern From: intern@lilink.UUCP (Steve Faiwisewski) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Oregon Software Modula-2 Experiences Message-ID: <780@lilink.UUCP> Date: 17 Jul 89 17:17:30 GMT References: Reply-To: intern@lilink.UUCP (Steve Faiwisewski) Organization: LILINK Public Xenix, Long Island, New York Lines: 28 In article Modula2 List writes: >Has anyone had any experiences (positive or negative) with Oregon >Software and/or their Modula-2? > >We are considering the purchase of their VMS version of Modula-2 for use >in our undergraduate curriculum so any experiences with this version would >be particularly welcome. >=========================================================================== >= John W. McCormick Phone (518) 564-2785 = >= Plattsburgh, NY 12901 BITNET MCCORMJW@SNYPLAVA.BITNET = I work for a major NY bank which uses Modula-2 for telecomm. applications. We use the Hamburg compiler (which was later taken over by Logitech, which then sold it recently to a Swiss company). We evaluated Oregon's VMS M2 compiler, and decided against it for the following reasons: 1) It didn't integrate too well into the VMS environment : it had its own debugger; you couldn't use VMS DEBUG (or PCA, etc.), and interfacing to modules generated by other languages wasn't too clean). 2) It was very different from the Hamburg/Logitech compiler (mainly in the way the support modules were defined), so that conversion would have been a major hardship on our part. Hope this helps. - Steve - -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Steve Faiwiszewski intern@lilink.UUCP intern@dasys1.UUCP