Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!WSUVM1.BITNET!HEIMBIG From: HEIMBIG@WSUVM1.BITNET (Bruce Heimbigner) Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2 Subject: Re: Compiler Info Wanted Message-ID: Date: 8 Mar 88 22:12:52 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: Info-Modula2 Distribution List Organization: The Internet Lines: 37 X-Unparsable-Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 08:36:43 PLT I've been using Ltech compiler for about 9 months it will produce ROMable code tho I have no experience with this. I would definitely recommend an AT level machine for Ltech. It is true that ver. 3.x is a faster compiler but linking takes longer than it did with 2.x, I understand that this change was necessary to allow M-2 '.obj' modules to be linked to other languages' '.obj' files. The run time debugger (mouse recomended) is effective, the post mortem debugger works the same as the run time but often there is no memory dump for the post mortem to work on (you have to specifically turn this function on but still it often doesn't generate the dump). To put it simply the manual stinks it barely passes as a reference to their implementation of M-2. There is however several good books for M-2. Tho the manual is bad the phone in support is good and I have always received good telephone assistance, I just wish Logitech would automatically send out their recommendations to registered users. Does anyone at Logitech read this?? If so a couple of suggestions. The current owners manual should be professionally re-written, if you have access to an HP-9816 (200 or 300 series computer) basic language reference you will have what I would descibe as the best written technical manual to a language or an operating system. It makes the MS-DOS or turbo-pascal manuals look like junior high efforts. Tho a lot of us have been using M-2 as a professional development language, many are coming to Logitech's M-2 as a first exposure to the language and it is too bad that the manuals they'll receive are of little help. (They often read like they'ld been translated from another language. Were they?) bye Bruce Heimbigner Email: Snail mail: HEIMBIG@WSUVM1.bitnet N.W. 324 True Street OR Pullman WA 99163-3347 (USA) BIX:bheimbigner (but I don't get on here very often) ----"It's all very well in practice, but in theory it just doesn't work."