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From: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Best compiler for IBM environment ?
Summary: Try the FST shareware Modula-2
Message-ID: <198@m2xenix.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 89 01:01:42 GMT
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Reply-To: randy@m2xenix.UUCP (Randy Bush)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland Oregon US
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In article <3301@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> rezac@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu 

asks for recommendations for an MS-DOS Modula-2 to see if the language is
suitable for his needs.

The Fitted Software Tools MS-DOS implementation should suit your needs
quite well.

  o The implementation is sound, full, and quite usable.

  o It implements the language rather well, and does not invent new
    syntax or semantics.  I.e. your application will port well to
    other environments than the cloistered world of MS-DOS.

  o It is shareware.  Try it, and if you don't like it or don't find
    Modula-2 suitable, then don't pay for it.  Should you choose to use
    it, then it's $25 (US), and for $10 more you get library sources.

  o It is well supported by a responsive author, Roger Carvalho.  He
    responds to both SNail and via his BBS.

Should you wish to try it, I could be convinced to send a 1.2mb diskie, but
you might prefer to just DL it from a neighborhood Modulan BBS.  If you can
not find the latter, then try the BBS at +1 (503) 297-9145, where the FST
implementation (and lots of other Modulania) is available to first time
callers.  It is PCPable.

I do not mean to imply that Logitech and JPI are bad choices.  They are not
shareware, and JPI deviates somewhat from the language, though nowhere
nearly as badly as Borland did with ersatz-Pascal.

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