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From: gjditchfield@watmsg.waterloo.edu (Glen Ditchfield)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Summary of accrued info on Modula-3 compilers
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Date: 4 Apr 89 14:40:37 GMT
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In article <2231@vicorp.UUCP> pms@vicorp.UUCP (Peter Shirley) writes:
>About two weeks ago, I posted a request to this group for information on a
>compiler for the Modula-3 language, ...  unfortunately, I only got one
>note about the existance (or lack thereof) of M3 compilers, from Mike Godfrey
>of the University of Toronto.
>> The chief Modula-3 person (whose name escapes me) gave a talk here two
>> weeks ago.  He gave the impression that a compiler will not be forthcoming
>> until the summer.  Of course, I may have gotten my dates wrong again.

As I remember the talk, Dr. Donahue said that a Modula-3 to C translator (a
la AT&T C++) would come out around August; that the translator is written in
C and Modula-2+; that it would be available to "sympathetic users", whoever
they are; that a revised Modula-3 Report would follow; and that another
compiler would come out a year after the first.

    Glen Ditchfield  gjditchfield@violet.uwaterloo.ca  Office: DC 2517
Dept. of Computer Science, U of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3G1
	"... and the rest, we will spend foolishly!" -- _Svengali_