Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!CTC.CONTEL.COM!reid From: reid@CTC.CONTEL.COM (Tom Reid x4505) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Working with FST Modula-2: Opinions, anyone? Message-ID: <9010291554.AA01294@ctc.contel.com> Date: 29 Oct 90 15:54:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Modula2 List Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 = >>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 = > I agree with the others that debugging is a pain and that the produced code size is not as small as one would ilke, but I have used it for a couple of years in a graduate translator construction course quite successfully. The students like the Turbo Pascal-like environment though the translator writer system for the course will not link edit successfully within the environment so one must exit and link separately (thank goodness for .BAT files). At about 6K LOC, the TWS isn't that large but there is a limit on how much 640+64=704K can hold. All-in-all, I find it a very comfortable compiler. Tom Thomas F. Reid, Ph. D. (703)818-4505 (work) Contel Technology Center (703)742-8720 (home) 15000 Conference Center Drive Net: reid@ctc.contel.com P.O. Box 10814 Chantilly, Va. 22021-3808