Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!mikel From: mikel@Apple.COM (Mikel Evins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Modula-3 Message-ID: <46910@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 28 Nov 90 19:42:10 GMT References: <46821@apple.Apple.COM> <009405B1.14D17A40@uno.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 32 In article <009405B1.14D17A40@uno.edu> jncs@uno.edu writes: > >I would like to get a scheme compiler for the NeXT; do you know of one? >Are you planning on making yours available T is available for ftp from wheaties. It isn't Scheme, but it's close. There is a precompiled version there for the NeXT. Oaklisp is available for ftp from CMU. It isn't precompiled, and typing the specified "make" command failed when I tried it the other day. I was preoccupied with other stuff and so I didn't bother to try tweaking the Makefile. The Purdue archives list the hostnames and net addresses of wheaties, CMU, and several other ftp archives. Unfortunately, I am at home today, and don't have the full address of the Purdue archives handy. Hopefully, either you already know them, or someone else will post them. I do plan to make Zen freely available as soon as it's worth distributing. It isn't, yet. >Yes I would be very interested in seeing a compiler for it. > I should probably mention that there have been nearly two dozen requests that we port the Object Oberon compiler to the NeXT in the last two days. This is more interest in the compiler in two days than Chuck has received in it on the Mac in all the time he's been working on it. That means that there is a good chance that he'll decide to go ahead with it. Interested parties can send mail to lins@apple.com. One note: I imagine Chuck will probably want to charge for the compiler. Judging by the prices on his other spare-time projects, I imaghine the price will be very reasonable.