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From: stolfi (Jorge Stolfi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula3
Subject: Re: Status of M-3
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Date: 5 Apr 91 04:01:17 GMT
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In-Reply-To: Message of 5 Apr 91 02:01:00 GMT
    from lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
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To: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog)
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    [Lance Norskog:] What's the current status of DEC's Modula-3 system?
    Does it have a port for the 386?  8086?  Does it have a generic
    GNU-CC port?  Are there X-Window bindings?  Is it easy to build
    C interfaces?

All these questions are answered in the documentation that comes with
the release, available via FTP from gatekeeper.dec.com.  See Eric
Muller's message of Mar/28 to this newsgroup.

    Is it robust and in use for large projects today, or is it still
    gurus-only?

I am working on a Modula-3 graphics application with >150 modules,
>25,000 lines of code.  SRC Modula-3 is definitely OK for that size scale. 
    
    Are there large projects written in Modula-3 available 
    for anonymous FTP?

There is the compiler itself, of course.

    Large object libraries, a' la the copyleft C++ class libraries?
    
Not that I know of.  The SRC Modula-3 package includes some basic
libraries (strings, streams, tables, X bindings, etc.) but they aren't
well planned or polished, and few of them are actually object-oriented.
There is a somewhat larger set of libraries that were written at the
(now closed) Olivetti Research Center, and may still be available;
check with Mick Jordan.  Better libraries are sorely needed.
    
  Jorge Stolfi
  DEC systems Research Center
  (Don't blame me, I'm only a user)