Re: Searching TopSpeed Modula 2 and Clarion

Robert Solomon wrote:
> Have you been using GNU-Modula2?  I have found it useless.  I could not 
> configure it on linux (xandros and pclos), and any kind of meaningful 
> help is out of the question.

There are some rough edges because it is still in development.
However, it is the few available on Solaris/Sparc (Ulm is the
other one).

> 
> I tried looking for mocka but could not find anything useful.

You may find the distribution from Murus
(http://lwb.mi.fu-berlin.de/mocka)
reasonable.  They also have a lot
of examples at the Murus site (http://lwb.mi.fu-berlin.de/murus).

> 
> I have found that the xds product does work for both Win 32 bit and 
> linux.  I have only been playing with this in a rudimentary way, but 
> have not found any serious problems w/ it.
> 
> xds is the best bet for the OP, as far as I found.

Agreed.

john

> 
>> Yaël Chéenne wrote:
>> [...]
>>> I like Modula-2. I've used it during many years but I lost the
contact.
>> [...]
>>> I want to run it under Windows 32 bits  platforms like XP, Vista (32
and 
>>> 64) and Linux or *BSD (MacOS/X)...
>> If you are interested in a Modula-2 compiler on those platforms, there 
>> are other options such as XDS, GNU-Modula-2, Mocka (from Murus), and
p1.
>>
>> john
>>
>>>
>>> I 'm searching too Clarion L4G, a very good product, but I've no 
>>> information too.
>>>
>>> If you know something ...
>>> Thanks a lot
>>> Best regards from France.
>>> YCH