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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: TopSpeed Modula-2 V2.00 not quite that bad?
Message-ID: <7734@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 28 Jun 90 18:14:05 GMT
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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I bought the upgrade, and then read this group. While I'm not happy with
the C orientation of V2.00 (mainly because the 8086 is a lousy machine for
a C implementation, and much better for Modula-2 or Pascal which can
effectively handle segments) the complaint about missing "C language sources"
is blatently false.

The TS languages use a common core of i/o routines which, while having names
suspiciously like stdio, are written in assembler. The older FIO package was
much more elegant IMHO, but this is the only way to mix languages.

The files in question are r_core.a and r_mcore.a.

The new package actually comes with a more complete set of sources than the
old one did. Everything is there now that they supply the mathlib sources.
The "competition" always leaves out the math library and the graphics
library sources.

The very sophisticated  (yet easy to use) "make" facility and the ability
to use DLLs in MS-DOS makes this the most sophisticated package around. If
their coming C++ and existing C compilers provide as much sophistication I
would be likely to toss my Borland and Microsoft compilers (I already tossed
my Zortech).

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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