Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!samsung!uunet!mcsun!ukc!reading!minster!pete From: pete@minster.york.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Which Modula2 compiler ? Message-ID: <665330668.2246@minster.york.ac.uk> Date: 31 Jan 91 14:04:29 GMT References: <64806.278dda66@pttrnl.nl> <22046@netcom.UUCP> <11688@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <7031@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> Reply-To: pete@SoftEng.UUCP (pete) Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of York, England Lines: 29 I've used 3 M2 compilers on the Atari ST over the past few years. I can only wholeheartedly recommend one of them. The Ana-Systems PD compiler just DOESN'T seem to work on my system, and even if it did the library appears to be very sparse indeed. I have used an old version of the TDI (Modula-2 Software) compiler, which was OK but rather idiosyncratic - it used a very weird desktop environment and needed a DA to control it. However it had great documentation and good libraries. Don't know if it's still available though. Finally, the one I can recommend, is the HiSoft/FTL Modula-2 system - this is really quite neat; you get sources to the whole library, you get a decent GEM editor, a command line shell and all kinds of utils. It generates fast, small code, the library supports everything, and it's QUICK! Jumping between the editor and compiler is easy, and with the libs. and linker on the [excellent] bomb-proof Ramdisk the system is really fast! The documentation is less than brilliant, but more than adequate. It was also reasonably cheap -- I paid sixty pounds for it in '88. I still use it on a regular basis; it's at least as nice an environment as Laser C in my opinion. -Pete Pete Fenelon | JANET: pete@uk.ac.york.minster Dept. of Computer Science | Internet:pete@minster.york.ac.uk University of York | UUCP: {the world}!ukc!minster!pete York Y01 5DD ENGLAND | others: pete%minster.york.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Tel: +44 904 432714 | ``If X is bad, imagine what Y and Z will be like''