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From: tsilander@cc.helsinki.fi (Tomi Silander)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: New JPI version
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.151023.5956@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 12 Apr 91 15:10:23 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
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Because we haven't seen any information on the new version of
JPI Modula-2 compiler here we decided to post some.

According to the new brochure about JPI compiler family following additions
have been made to Modula-2 compiler.

New object oriented features have been added. Type system now supports
multiple inheritance, automatic object initialization and automatic type
conversions.

Compiler supports up to 32 threads under DOS and OS/2.

Their new Tech Kit supports Windows 3 programming and includes a 
recource compiler.

Other compilers that are available for the multi language environment
are C, C++ and Pascal with objects.

We haven't received our update yet, but it will arrive somewhere 
in early May. We surely hope that it'll be less buggy than 
previous versions.

By the way, there has been some talk here about JPI's policy of
updating version 2 compilers to version 3. Do we recall correctly
that somebody said JPI will give free updates?

T.Silander