After looking for some suitable domain names that are still available,
Elego Software Solutions (www.elegosoft.com), which has hosted the
Modula-3 repositories and web sites for several years, has now secured
www.opencm3.net to allow easier access to the CM3 project.
http://www.opemcm3.net
is now the same as
http://modula3.elegosoft.com/cm3/,
but shorter and probably easier
to remember. Unfortunately www.opencm3.org and the shorter www.cm3.xxx
domains are owned by others.
Open Critical Mass Modula-3 is a volunteer project maintaining and
consistently improving the Modula-3 compiler developed at Digital
Research and Critical Mass. It is completely free and can be used for
all private and commercial purposes without fee. It comes with
megabytes of high quality source code for almost any purpose, including
scientific math packages, compiler generator tools, a distributed object
system (netobj), SGML and HTML tools, the constraint based
graphical editor Juno-2, database interfaces, algorithm animations
(mentor), and much more. Critical Mass Modula-3 runs on Linux, FreeBSD,
Windows, Mac OS X / Darwin, Solaris, and other Unix operating systems.
There's been much work on CM3 in recent months:
o Platform independent LONGINT support (64 bit) has been added to the
language.
o Automatic regression tests have been set up, which are run nightly
on several target platforms. Several snapshot archives are available
as the result of these nightly runs, too.
Results are available via a tinderbox interface, and as result
lists for compiler and runtime regression tests and package build
results.
o Much work is underway on improved Windows support (NT386, NT386GNU).
o Several bugs in runtime support and compiler shortcomings have
been fixed.
o CM3's Reactor(TM) code has been ported to work with the current CM3
sources and will be available as M3IDE as soon as the copyright
owner gives his final OK.
o Quake has been extended by many useful utility functions.
o The current sources can now be browsed at www.opencm3.net
as well as the CVS code repository.
Have a look at http://www.opencm3.net/
to learn all the details.
If you are interested in Modula-3 you should also consider to
subscribe to one of the mailing lists (m3announce, m3devel, m3commit)
accessible at the web site, as this newsgroup is rarely used
for discussions.
Olaf Wagner
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