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Subject: Re: where to get Modula-2 News
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 17:48:19 EST
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> I saw a reference to a publication called "Modula-2 News" in the
> USENIX Winter Conference Dallas 1985 Proceedings.  The issue cited
> was #0 from October 1984.  Is this a new magazine or newsletter?
> If anyone has information on it, please send me mail or reply to
> the net.  On a different (altho very exciting topic), I called
> Borland Inc the other day and they said they were going to start
> shipping Turbo Modula-2 in March.  They would not say what the
> pricing would be!?  The tech on the phone said "It is hot!".
> 
> -- 
> George B. Smith
> National Semiconductor
> ...!{ihnp4!nsc | decvax!decwrl!nsc | ucbvax}!voder!gbs

Modula-2 News is published by the Modula 2 Users' Society, which is
run out of some consulting firm in Silicon Valley.  I'll look up 
their address when I get home, and post it in a subsequent message.

You can also get their address from Logitech, and while I'm at it,
I wanted to mention that Logitech has released version 1.1 of their
Modula-2/86 compiler.  The new version has some new improved libraries,
especially with regard to real conversions (to and from text), a couple
new Wirth-approved changes (character constants of length 1 are now
assignment compatible with ARRAY OF CHAR - hooray!), much faster
compile and link times, and floating point emulation (no need for
8087 anymore).

There is also a new RUN-TIME symbolic debugger.  This has all the
very impressive symbolic features of the post-mortem debugger that
comes standard with the package, but it is an interactive debugging
tool, allowing you to set breakpoints in the source code and other
such wonderful things.  Unfortunately, you have to pay for all this
neat stuff (the debugger is $200 extra, the update is $75 if you 
are a current customer of V.1.0).  But, what comes free, eh?

Once again, I'll post the address for the Users' Society one of these
days.


-- 
      Dan Frank

	"good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance."