Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!lins From: lins@Apple.COM (Chuck Lins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: MPW Linker wish... Summary: Get Metrowerks Modula-2 Message-ID: <47376@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 14 Dec 90 16:50:00 GMT References: <47309@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Dec13.003115.9409@eng.umd.edu> Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA Lines: 27 In article n67786@assari.tut.fi (Nieminen Tero) writes: [stuff about the SemperSoft compiler which doesn't exist anymore] The only worthwhile Modula-2 compiler still commercially supported are the Metrowerks compilers. They have a good MPW version and a standalone version similar to the Think compilers (ie environment). Macmillian Publishers also sells a $35 student version of their standalone compiler. Recently, ETH Zuerich (where Prof. Wirth himself works) decided to supply this student version to _all_ of their undergraduate students. The compilers are _very_ fast, the environment is reasonably nice (though not as many features as Think). Now I know the next question is 'where can I order?' :-) Look in you latest MacTutor for the advertiser index. Look up Metrowerks. Find that page number. (In the Nov 90 issue it's page 46). Then call (514) 458-2018. The price I believe is $150 or the MPW version. The standalone version is similar (but perhaps a bit more, maybe $179 or something like that). This is the best thing you can you for yourself until you're ready to move up to Oberon :-) [flames sent to an IBM LAN] -- Chuck Lins | "Is this the kind of work you'd like to do?" Apple Computer, Inc. | -- Front 242 20525 Mariani Avenue | Internet: lins@apple.com Mail Stop 37-BD | AppleLink: LINS@applelink.apple.com Cupertino, CA 95014 | "Self-proclaimed Object Oberon Evangelist" The intersection of Apple's ideas and my ideas yields the empty set.