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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Which Modula2 compiler ?
Summary: TDI died
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.151450.4419@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 1 Feb 91 15:14:50 GMT
References: <11688@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <7031@uqcspe.cs.uq.oz.au> <665330668.2246@minster.york.ac.uk>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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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
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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