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From: csgr@quagga.uucp (Geoff Rehmet)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Working with FST Modula-2: Opinions, anyone?
Keywords: modula, modula-2, fst, compiler
Message-ID: <1990Oct27.074944.22759@quagga.uucp>
Date: 27 Oct 90 07:49:44 GMT
References: <1990Oct25.030545.16556@coyote.uucp> <1990Oct25.195628.324@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown RSA
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In <1990Oct25.195628.324@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> draper@cpsin2.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J Draper) writes:

>In article <1990Oct25.030545.16556@coyote.uucp> jmh@coyote.UUCP (John Hughes) writes:
>>
>>I've been using Roger Carvalho's Fitted Software Tools Modula-2
>>compiler for quite a while now, and I've come to like it. Other
>                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

>Well I like it too. I've used FST for a couple of months now, and have
>few complaints.

At Rhodes University we are using FST for our courses in Modula-2.
Since the middle of my first year I have been using JPI, but I still 
consider FST to be a good product (considering it is shareware).  The 
compiler isn't a heck of a lot slower than JPI (version 1.something), but
as mentioned the linker does take it's time.  

I do find it a bit difficult to trace run-time errors with FST (JPI takes
you to the right spot in the source text), but you can learn to live with
that.

Unfortunately the size of FST executeables is a bit on the large side.  For
serious programs I prefer to go for JPI, because the smallest FST executable
I've managed to create is about 20K (2 or 3K with JPI).


On the whole though, I think that Fitted Software Tools should keep up the
good work!

Geoff Rehmet.
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