Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!paul.rutgers.edu!njin!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!tut!mt87692 From: mt87692@tut.fi (Mikko Tsokkinen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Query for the Net Message-ID: Date: 8 Nov 90 02:04:22 GMT References: <1990Nov6.155810.20604@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <90311.140732UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@funet.fi (#News ) Organization: Tampere University of Technology Lines: 29 In-Reply-To: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu's message of 7 Nov 90 19:07:32 GMT > (Richard Griffith) says: > >what languages (compilers, interpeters, etc.) are available for Amiga? > >I've got Manx C, but was getting curious about things like Modula-II, > >Pascal, Forth, Lisp, Prolog, ---- What's available? > Briefly: > The two C compilers are both good, as are a couple of the freeware C compilers > The M2's are pretty good. > There is an OK commercial Pascal and an OK PD Pascal > There are excellent commercial forths > The PD lisp and prolog scene is pretty good. > There is an excellent Draco, and Oberon has recently appeared. > There are two C++ systems, but not the latest version. > There is a good Fortran, and several decent Basics. > AREXX is a very fine implementation of IBM mainframe REXX, and > then some. > NOTABLY MISSING? Smalltalk, SQL, Mathematica, Obj-C, Eiffel > COBOL > What'd I forget?? PD Postscript Many good assembler packages both commercial and PD Scheme and some other lisps What'd I forged? MIT -- Lets buy a dog!