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From: griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith)
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Subject: Re: Query for the Net
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Date: 8 Nov 90 23:37:08 GMT
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In article <90311.140732UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>, UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee
Sailer) writes:
> From: UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
> Subject: Re: Query for the Net
> 
<stuff deleted>

*First* Thanks for the reply... 

> Briefly:
> 
> The two C compilers are both good, as are a couple of the freeware C
compilers
I assume you mean Manx and Lattice here...       PDC and gcc?
> 
> The M2's are pretty good.
which ones?  I'm aware of Benchmark, TDI, M2Sprint, (is M2S the same?)
who owns what?  are they still selling? 
> 
> There is an OK commercial Pascal and an OK PD Pascal
which ones?

etc. etc. etc.
> 
> 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??

(BTW - I've seen a PD implementation of smalltalk - dunno if it 
runs tho...)

Assemblers?  

What uses AREXX?   Are there source-level debuggers available? 
Yep, I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it NOW! :-)

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  as 'wanting'..."  
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