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From: com-gmb@HATPOLY.UUCP (Gordon Bull)
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Subject: Re: Cambridge Modula-2 Compiler
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Date: Wed, 26-Feb-86 09:19:56 EST
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We have used the Cambridge Modula 2 compiler for undergraduate teaching for 
the past 2 years.  We started with the pre-release version and have now moved 
on to the current release.  One the whole it is a poor compiler:
   - it is very slow
   - it has poor error messages
   - it has a non-standard library (however the good news is that you can
                                     build your own fairly easily)
We have looked for another compiler without success.  We hear that a
university in Holland has modified the Cambridge compiler to overcome
some of its problems but we don't have more details.

Hope this is of some help

Gordon Bull