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From: mjj@stl.olivetti.com (Mick Jordan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.modula2
Subject: Re: Summary of accrued info on Modula-3 compilers
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Date: 5 Apr 89 21:23:48 GMT
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Reply-To: mjj@oli-stl.UUCP (Mick Jordan)
Organization: Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory, Menlo Park, CA
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I apologise for not replying to the question about Modula-3 compilers in
a timely fashion.  Olivetti Research is building a compiler for Modula-3
and we do hope to distribute it in the second half of this year.  In
a couple of weeks I will post a detailed message about what we expect 
the distribution to contain.  Our present status is that we have an operational
compiler, written in Modula-2+, IDL and C, which generates C, and we are part 
way through the bootstrap of the system into Modula-3 and C. It is worth
pointing out that the language definition is currently being revised in
response to evaluation feedback; a revised report can be expected later
this year and our compiler will implement the revised language.

--Mick Jordan