Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!linac!att!ucbvax!VTVM1.BITNET!GRANGERG From: GRANGERG@VTVM1.BITNET (Greg Granger) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: BIX - BYTE - JPI - Chaos Message-ID: Date: 2 Apr 91 14:09:41 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Modula2 List Organization: The Internet Lines: 23 Speaking of BIX (which I'd like to try, 'cept I'm poor) ... did anyone notice the "Onion with Garlic clove" that JPI recieved in the Chaos Manor column for ... merging M2 and C :-) (wish I could remember the exact quote, cause it's the kind of off-handed bite that keeps me reading Mr. P's column). Now I'm not trying to start a flame war I use to read JPAM and I know that JPI has this hard-line stand that the only problem with JPI M2 V2 is the manuals (which 'they be fixing'). The way they justified all the C kludges forced into the _M2 _language, was almost (but not quite) enough to make me switch to another compiler but alas, I am poor, and the V1 of their compiler was slick. I hope they do a 'proper' job with V3 (and I hope they get it out the door before their free coupon expires), but judging from their "we make no secert that we are a multi-compiler company, always have been, always will be" (which appears to mean their goals are to change any language so that it will compile with there ONE compiler) attitude I expect V3 will require keywords in lower case and 'printf' and 'scanf' for I/O. Such is life, I'm really an optimist (really!), for example I'm still hoping someone will build a 'popular' and cheap box using the NS32000 series processor. I'm having a bad morning, does it show? Greg