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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which Modula2 compiler ?
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.231320.13563@uvm.edu>
Date: 2 Feb 91 23:13:20 GMT
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From article <1991Feb1.151450.4419@cs.dal.ca>, by silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert):
> In article <665330668.2246@minster.york.ac.uk> pete@SoftEng.UUCP (pete) writes:
>>I've used 3 M2 compilers on the Atari ST over the past few years.
>>I can only wholeheartedly recommend one of them.
>>
>>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.
> 
> TDI vanished several years ago.  I had their development system (version
> 3 I think).  Unfortunately, some of the bugs in version 1 that got fixed
> in version 2 reappeared in version 3, so a lot of my code broke.  It had
> some nice features and was reasonably fast if you compiled in a RAM
> disk, but due to lots of disk access it was slow compiling to disk.
> 
> 
> -- 
> William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography

The ads that came with my copy of Lattice C (ported by HiSoft),
indicate that HiSoft took TDI's orphan over as well as Lattice's (SAS
owns Lattice now).  Any comments from over the pond?  How's the
current version?

Bob Pegram

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