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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: TopSpeed C (and yes, I know where I'm posting!)
Keywords: Jensen&Partners Modula-2
Message-ID: <7869@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 25 Jul 90 15:47:55 GMT
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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Jensen & Partners made a big deal about how the editor, debugger, and even
parts of the libraries are shared among their languages.

Now they send out an offer to pick up TopSpeed C at a discount of a measly
20%. While I'm tempted to look at their C (although I'd really rather wait
for their C++), with so much shared code I feel that 20% off is very skimpy.

Now my question -- does anybody have both products (Modula-2 V2, and C)?
In particular, would it be possible to buy just the "Standard Edition" of
C, and have all of the advantages of "Extended Edition" (DDL, profiler)
except for the source code?

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Obligatory bug report:

I converted a program (from V1.??) that had the following line:

cmdlen := Str.Length(Lib.CommandLine);

I compiled the program using Small memory model, it compiled without error,
and of course didn't run because Lib.CommandLine is a "far" array. This
should have caused a compilation error. (BTW, I fixed the problem by replacing
the line with a loop that looked for the end of the commandline string.
That worked just fine since indexing the far array works.)

Tom Almy
toma@tekgvs.labs.tek.com
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