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From: scott@cs.rochester.edu (Michael Scott)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Subject: Re: DEC optimising Modula-2 compiler
Keywords: Modula-2, question
Message-ID: <1990Jun5.173853.3039@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us>
Date: 5 Jun 90 17:38:53 GMT
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In article <1990Jun1.193655.5436@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> jensting@diku.dk (Jens Tingleff) writes:
| Does anyone have any experience with/information about the 
| "portable optimising compiler for Modula-2" described in an article
| by Michael L. Powell in SIGPLAN Notices 19:6 (the compiler/article
| refered to in the Dragon book) ?

Yes, we used the compiler extensively at Wisconsin back in the early 80's.
It was kind of buggy, as one would expect for an experimental non-product,
but it produced reasonable code for the VAX, ran reasonably fast, and had
an unusually clean interface to C/Unix.  We also used it here at Rochester
for a number of years, and wrote a back end for it for the 680x0, allowing
us to compile for the Sun-2, Sun-3, and BBN Butterfly.  We're now a SPARC
shop, mostly, and have abandoned the old compiler.

Meanwhile, folks at DEC have been busy inventing Modula-3, and have a very
nice compiler for it that is available to universities for little or no fee.
Contact kalsow@src.dec.com.
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Michael L. Scott
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University of Rochester		scott@cs.rochester.edu
Rochester, NY  14627		...!rochester!scott
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