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From: tll@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Tal Lewis Lancaster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Modula-2, where are you?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.175831.12271@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 14 Feb 91 17:58:31 GMT
References: <4763@mindlink.UUCP> <1991Feb13.154532.28435@intelhf.hf.intel.com>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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griff@anvil.intel.com (Richard Griffith) writes:

>In article <4763@mindlink.UUCP>, Anthon_Pang@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
>writes:
>> From: Anthon_Pang@mindlink.UUCP (Anthon Pang)
>> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
>> Subject: Re: Modula-2, where are you?
>> 
>> griff@anvil.intel.com writes:
>> > I've heard some nice things about that one as well, but, I've also
>> > heard that M2Sprint no longer exists?  Yes? no? maybe?  Bought by
>> > Benchmark, I think.
>> > 
>> Almost right...Preferred Tech (M2Sprint) & Avant Garde (Benchmark) are two
>> distinctly separate companies.  Leon Frenkel just happens to have shares in
>> both, as well as being involved with the support of both products--he has
>> stated that both products would remain separate.

>Ok, does this mean that M2Sprint is still around?  I've had several
>people tell me that this was the M2 to get - (which would produce
>a few other questions, like: what kind of DB does it have?  Does it
>have Arexx support?  Editor? etc.)

I think they are still around (but I can't confirm it).  I thought I saw them
listed in the latest Amazing Product Guide.  The M2Sprint that I used had
Arexx support.  The Environment can be all intergrated.  So you never have to
leave the editor.  I enjoyed the editor alot!  I wish SAS would take note and
make LSE look and feel like M2Sprint's Editor!  Haven't seen their Debugger
so I can't comment on it.  But if it is like the rest of their M2 environment
it should be REAL fine.  M2Sprint is the ONLY commercial langauge available
(that I have used) on the AMIGA that can be compared to Borland or 
TopSpeed's compilers!!!

>:Richard E. Griffith, "griff" : iNTEL, Hillsboro Ore.
>:griff@anvil.hf.intel.com
>:SCA!: Cyrus Hammerhand, Household of the Golden Wolf, Dragons' Mist, An Tir 
>:These are MY opinions, if iNTEL wanted them, They'd pay for `em!

Tal Lancaster
tll@tybalt.caltech.edu