1997_Modula-2_FAQ.txt

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Subject: Modula-2 FAQ/part1
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                 Modula-2 Frequently Asked Questions
What is new in version 2.7?
The FAQ location has not changed after all.  What did change was the
location of
the shareware textbook, which now starts at http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/ The
reference to Yahoo is updated. A rather strange question is asked and
answered as
4.15. Some vendor info has been updated (XTech, Mill Hill, Stonybrook, ULM).
The Sun site reference to Linux is here now. Section 1.12 on the advantages
over C
has been expanded a little. New random number generator and math library
references have been added.


What was new in version 2.6?
Stonybrook Modula-2 for Windows95/NT is here!!!  There are more references to
source code.  Multigraph has a new home page. There are some new references to
source code. Section 3.3 has a new summary of ISO compatible products for
micros.

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SUMMARY:
1. Answers to frequently asked questions about Modula-2 will be collected at
Trinity Western University and included in this document from time to time
as it is
revised.

2. Submissions should be mailed to -- rsutc@twu.ca
Anyone making a submission guarantees that they have the right to do so
(copyright holder, or information in the public domain.) and that the
information
is not from any source whose copyright lies with another.

3. I will update this summary file and post to the newsgroups
comp.lang.modula2
and to comp.answers and news.answers

4. The latest version will always be available in a Nisus (Mac) form in
ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/m2faq.html
The folder modula2 has a variety of other materials. This version of the
FAQ is
readible as text by other word processors, but without any formatting. It
is also
available from the site rtfm.mit.edu in plain text form as
file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-group/comp.answers/computer-
lang/Modula2-faq/part1 and as file://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet-by-
group/comp.answers/computer-lang/Modula2-faq/part2

5. An automatically generated .html version of the FAQ is available as
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/computer-lang/Modula2-
faq/part1/faq.html
and
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/computer-lang/Modula2-
faq/part2/faq.html
However, this one seems to be a couple of versions out of date.

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CONTENTS:
Part 1
1. WHAT IS MODULA-2?
2. WHERE IS MODULA-2 DISCUSSED?
3. WHERE CAN I GET MODULA-2 COMPILERS?
Part 2
4. WHERE CAN I GET SOURCE CODE, OTHER INFO?
5. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON CODE AND ALGORITHMS
6. WHAT ARE SOME REFERENCE MATERIALS ON MODULA-2?
7. REVIEWS
Appendix: AUTHOR INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMERS

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1. WHAT IS MODULA-2?
A. Modula-2 is a programming notation that corrects some of the
deficiencies of
Pascal. It is suitable for learning programming, for large projects written
and
maintained in the fashion of professional software engineers, and for real
time
embedded systems.


1.1 Who developed Modula-2?
A. Modula-2 was developed by Niklaus Wirth at ETH in Zurich, Switzerland in
the late 70's. Wirth also developed Pascal and Oberon.
see: http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/nwirth/


1.2 Where is this language described?
A. In Programming in Modula-2 3rd edition published by Springer-Verlag in
1985.
For the purposes of distinguishing this from later variants, this
description will be
referred to herein as classical Modula-2.


1.3 How do you pronounce Herr Wirth's name?
A. It is incorrect to call him by his value (worth.) Instead his name is veart.

1.4 Can I get a simple introduction to ISO Modula-2?
Yes, the latest revised edition of the shareware text as of 1996 09 06 is at
http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/
Mirrors: http://eiunix.tuwien.ac.at/Modula-2/rsbook/


1.5 How does Modula-2 fit into the language zoo?
A. It is a descendent of Pascal and Modula, and one predecessor of Modula-2+,
Modula-2*, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, and various object oriented versions of
these. The latter languages are not replacements for  Modula-2, merely later
notations in the same family, having strengths and weaknesses of their own.
Modula-2 is sometimes classified with Ada and C as the trio of modern
languages
in view of their expressive power. Modula-2 is smaller and more readable than
either.


1.6 What are the differences between Modula-2 and Pascal?
A. Modula-2 has separately compiled library modules, and makes much less
use of
blocks (begin...) than Pascal. Identifiers are case sensitive; there is no
goto label;
and I/O is in libraries rather than built in. The IF statement is more
versatile; and
there are facilities for concurrent programming via coroutines.


1.7 What is ISO Standard Modula-2?
A. A committee of ISO JTC1/SC22/WG13 with delegates from several countries
has met since 1987 to work on a standard description of Modula-2 and a set of
standard library modules.

A2. The official home of the ISO Modula-2 working group WG13 is at
http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/

1.7.1 What is the status of ISO Standard Modula-2?
A. The international standard (IS 10514) has been voted on and is now official.


1.7.2 Where can I get the Modula-2 standard?
A1. Contact your national standards body or ISO (the publisher.)

A2. For an older version, try looking in ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-
ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/standard/draft4/

1.7.3 What format is the standard document in?
A. Latex.


1.7.4 Who is the convenor of the standards group (WG13)?
A.Martin Schoenhacker of Vienna has been approved by SC22 as the new
convenor.


1.7.5 When was the last WG13 meeting?
A1. It was June 3-7 in Oxford, UK.  For more details, follow
http://sc22wg13.twi.tudelft.nl/docs/meetings.html


1.7.6 When is the next WG13 meeting?
A1. It will be in the Spring of 1997 at Linz in conjunction with the
conference on
Modular Languages.


1.7.7 Will I be able to read the standard?
A1. The concrete syntax is written in a variation of EBNF (Extended
Backus-Naur
Formalism) and should be accessible to most.

A2. Much of the document's details are written in VDM-SL (Vienna Development
Method - Specification Language) which is a formalism for giving a precise
definition of a programming language in a denotational style. It is worth
learning
VDM-SL if you plan to write a compiler or take a course in formal methods.


1.7.8 Can I at least get electronic copies of the definition modules?
A. Yes, in ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/ISOLibraries/ISODEFMods/ or
ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/standard/libdefs/


1.7.9 Can I get copies of the grammer?
A1. Yes, in http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/Appendices/Ap3.html
A2. For classical Modula-2, see also COCO (section 4.9)
A3. There are nice syntax diagrams for classical Modula-2 in
http://cuiwww.unige.ch/db-
research/Enseignement/analyseinfo/Modula2/BNFindex.html
 and there are syntax diagrams for ISO Modula-2 stored at
http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/Appendices/Ap2.html


1.8 What difference is there between classical and ISO Modula-2?
A. ISO Modula-2 has resolved most of the ambiguities in classical Modula-2. It
adds the data type COMPLEX and LONGCOMPLEX, exceptions, module
termination (FINALLY clause) and a complete standard I/O library. There are
numerous minor differences and clarifications.


1.8.1 What else is WG13 doing?
A. WG13 is working on two additional standards (separate from the main one)
for
(a) object oriented Modula-2 and (b) generic programming facilities. Both
passed
the registration ballot as CDs and will now proceed to final drafting. Various
versions of the latest generics proposal (ca101) and the disposition of
comments
(ca100) are stored in the directory ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/WG13/

1.9 What is (was) Turbo Modula-2
A. Borland prepared CP/M versions of Modula-2 and sold them for a time in
Europe (also in North America via a distributer.) One of these versions later
migrated to become TopSpeed Modula-2.

1.10 Where and for what is Modula-2 used?
A1. Modula-2 is widely used for teaching the fundamentals of sound
programming techniques, data structures, and software engineering in many
parts
of the world. It is the language of choice in much of Europe. It has
features that
make it superior to other languages for large projects and for programming and
real time controllers.


A2. Here is a message sent in by a maker of test equipment:
Our BoardWizard range of test equipment has compilers,pseudo-code interpreters
and a complete test operating system written in M2.  The code was written
for one
tester in 1987 and has been maintained from that date to the present. New
tester
models have added and new interface and UI code has been written, indeed
sections have been completely re-written but much of the core test logic is
untouched since about 1990 when I shifted to management.  Much of the code is
unknown to those who maintain it - yet when i look at it after several
years I can
still explain it to others even though comments are sparse. I believe that
that is the
hallmark of a great programming language. (Emphasis added.)
Dave Appleton,
Technical Manager
Goldtron Technologies                       Tel : (065)-870-9886
(Ex- Proteq Technologies)                   Fax: (065)-777-2118
26 Ayer Rajah Crescent #07-01               www:
http://www.proteq.com.sg
Singapore  139944

A3. The following survey results were recently posted by Mat. Maher
ssu94114@reading.ac.uk

ORGANISATION              LOCATION   WORK                   COMPILER
Statoil                   Norway                            StonyBrook
Inst. for Space Nerology  Austria    datafile conversion    TopSpeed
                                     dataviewers
Boeing                    Washington Aerospace Eng.         p1(MAC)
CDSS                      UK         embedded control sys.  TopSpeed
                                     for submarines
(self-employed)           UK         embedded Pcs and       TopSpeed
                                     pc-like chips
(manufacturer)            Finland,   8051 embedded control  Mod51
                          S.Africa,
                          Australia,
                          NZ, USA
Pacific Software          California Point-Of-Sale systems   -
Tele-Soft                 S. Africa  Scientific CAD progs   TopSpeed
                                     Databases
(confidential)            UK         Instrumentation &      TopSpeed &
                                     telemetry              Custom tools
USA Dept. of Energy       Idaho      Reusable components    StonyBrook
Idaho Nat. eng. labs                 systems programming
Locheed Idaho technologies company
Applied software resuse Products
GiaStar Ltd               UK         Satcoms/Comms. Elect.  TopSpeed
                                     design & m/facture.
University of Reading     UK         Teaching,embedded ctrl  TopSpeed
University of Loughborough UK                               StonyBrook
and Hertsfordshire                                          TopSpeed
(sole trader)             UK         Electronic Design      TopSpeed
Atomic Energy of Canada   Canada     Shutdown system for    prototype in
Ltd. (AECL)                          nuclear reactor        TopSpeed
                                                         final version in
                                                         Hicross (HiWare)
Wallac Oy                 Finland    beta/gamma counters    Logitech,
                                     control & data acquis. Multiscope
Inspectron AG             Switzerland remote surveillance   Logitech,
                                                            Multiscope
Bank of New York          USA        funds transfer &       Terra
Dutentechnik
                                     customer enquirys      (VAX/VMS)
(freelance)                          Motorola IC production Logitech
                                     line tools. (Asia)
Dexdyne Ltd               UK         Single-board Pcs &     TopSpeed
                                     applications.
(freelance)               Australia  Shareware              p1 (mac)
Multi-Master AS           Norway     Embedded systems,      Logitech,
                                     remote control & acquis. Multiscope
(confidential)                       room acoustic sim &    TopSpeed
                                     (audio) virtual reality


1.12 Why do universities use Modula-2 for teaching instead of C or C++?
A. Modula-2 is a type-safe language and its compilers will therefore catch
many
errors that otherwise show up at run time. While professional programmers need
to learn C because it is commonly used, it is important to begin a
discipline of
deliberate, engineered programming at the outset. Modula-2 is easier to
write in,
easier to read (it reads left to right) and easier to debug in. It lends
itself well to
software engineering. Modula-2 is a Higher Level Language than C, particularly
with respect to pointers, all of which have types that depend on what is
pointed to,
and which can be treated as addresses only by flagging this in the program.
A2. Here are the results of a survey of university usage of Modula-2 done by
Bernhard Leitch

 lang.    total perc.   group
Pascal     159  35.57%    1
Ada         73  16.33%    2
Scheme      51  11.41%    4
Modula-2    49  10.96%    1
C           36   8.05%    3
C++         28   6.26%    3
Fortran     10   2.24%    5
Turing       6   1.34%    5
Eiffel       5   1.12%    5
SML          5   1.12%    5
Miranda      4   0.89%    5
Modula-3     4   0.89%    5
ML           3   0.67%    5
Oberon       2   0.45%    1
ISETL        2   0.45%    5
Smalltalk    1   0.22%    5
Beta         1   0.22%    5
Prolog       1   0.22%    5
Simula       1   0.22%    5
Orwell       1   0.22%    5
Basic        1   0.22%    5
Trine        1   0.22%    5
Cobol        1   0.22%    5
Pop-11       1   0.22%    5
Lisp         1   0.22%    4
           --- -------
           447 100.00%
in language groups:

Wirth lang.  210  47%  1
Ada           73  16%  2
C/C++         64  14%  3
Lisp like     52  12%  4
other         48  11%  5
             --- ----
             447 100%


1.13 Why is Modula-2 a good language for large commercial projects?
A1. It supports modular design which reduces errors and cuts down on
maintenance time.  This also allows platform dependencies to be isolated,
increasing portability.

A2. see: Griffith, Laurie Modula-2 is three times less error prone than C,
Proceedings of
the Second International Modula-2 Conference, Loughborough University of
Technology, UK, September 1991, pp 332-338.

1.14 Where do I get information on Oberon and Modula-3?
A. These languages have their own newsgroups. The Modula-3 FAQ is located at
http://www.vlsi.polymtl.ca/m3/faq.html and Oberon has an interesting page at
http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~laden/Ob-pkgs.html

1.15 Where do I get information on Modula-2*?
A. Try http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de/Tichy/m2star

1.16 Where do I get information on YAFL?
A. This is yet another OO and Generic derivative of Modula-2. The homepage for
the language is at http://www.phidani.be/yafl/index.html

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2. WHERE IS MODULA-2 DISCUSSED?

2.1 COMP.LANG.MODULA-2
This is an internet newsgroup for questions, answers, and discussions on
Modula-
2. You may read it under this name on any machine on which you have a news
account.


2.1.1 How do I post a message to comp.lang.modula2?
A. Post it directly into that group using a news program on any computer
connected to the network.


2.1.2 How do I retrieve old messages from comp.lang.modula2?
A. Your local news server probably keeps old messages only for a few weeks.
You
should be able to mark the entire group as unread and browse whatever is
available there.


2.2 Compuserve
If you have a Compuserve account, GO CODEPORT to join the portable
programming forum.


2.3 Amiga lists
2.4.1 A general list for Amiga Modula2/Oberon programming.  This is
available in
a similar manner at amiga-m2@virginia.edu. It is not oriented toward any
specific
compiler.Mail to cbt-general-request@virginia.edu to subscribe.


2.4.2 A mailing-list for the Amiga Turbo Modula-2 Compiler written by Amritpal
S. Mann. To subscribe, send a message to maillist@econet.demon.co.uk with
SignOn turbo-list as the Subject. Once subscribed, you will receive a copy
of all
messages sent to the address turbo-list@econet.demon.co.uk.


2.4 Gardens Point Modula-2
To join the GPM mailing list, send mail to majordomo@dstc.qut.edu.au with
the subject line blank and the body
 of the message containing:
  subscribe gpm
  info gpm
  end
Mail sent to gpm@dstc.qut.edu.au gets automatically forwarded to all
 subscribers on the list. The development team are of course subscribers.

2.5 XDS
To subscribe to the XDS mailing list, send message with the following
body:
    subscribe xds
    end
to majordomo@listserv.iis.nsk.su.
To submit a posting to the list, send it to xds@listserv.iis.nsk.su.
To learn more about listserver commands, send message
    help
    end
to majordomo@listserv.iis.nsk.su


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3. WHERE CAN I GET MODULA-2 COMPILERS?

3.1 Where can I get commercial Modula-2 compilers?

In this section, the listings are by name of the manufacturer (marked M)
or distributor (marked D.)

ACE Associated Computer Experts bv
activity  M
products  Compilers, Operating systems and Consultancy
platforms SPARC, 68K, Transputer and more
office    Van Eeghenstraat 100
          1071 GL  Amsterdam
          The Netherlands
contact   Kees Dik
e-mail    kees@ace.nl
voice     +31 20 6646416
fax       +31 20 6750389


A+L AG
activity  D
products  Compilers, applications, and books.
platforms various
office    Daderiz 61
          CH-2540 Grenchen
          Switzerland
contact   Albert Meier
e-mail    aplusl@spectraweb.ch
voice     +41/65/52 03 11
fax       +41/65/52 03 79


Byte Works, Inc.
activity  MD
products  ORCA/Modula-2 for the Apple IIGS
offices   8000 Wagon Mound Dr. NW
          Albuquerque NM 87120
contact     Mike Westerfield
voice     (505) 898-8183
e-mail     MikeW50@AOL.COM


Edinburgh Portable Compilers, Ltd
activity  MD
products  EPC Modula-2
platforms SCO Unix V.[34],
          Motorola 88000 UNIX V.[34],
          SPARC UNIX & Solaris,
          RS/6000 AIX
office1   17 Alva Street
          Edinburgh, EH2 4PH, UK
contact   Kathleen Smith
e-mail    support@epc.ed.ac.uk
voice     +441 131 225 6262
fax       +441 131 225 6644
office2   20 Victor Square
          Scotts Valley
          California 95066, USA
USA tel   1-800-EPC-1110


Gardens Point
activity  MD
products  Gardens Point Modula-2
platforms Various Unix, including Linux and FreeBSD, DJGPP, EMX (OS/2)
            and MS-DOS (no Mac)
office    Queensland University of Technology
          Gardens Point Branch
          2 George Street
          POB 2434 Brisbane
          Queensland Australia 4001
contact   John Gough
e-mail    GOUGH@qut.edu.au
contact   Jeffrey Ledermann
e-mail    lederman@dstc.qut.edu.au
web       http://www.fit.qut.edu.au/CompSci/PLAS/GPM/
voice     +61 7-864-2132
fax       +61 7-864-1801
see mail list and net sections

Mandeno Granville Electronics Ltd
activity   MD
products  80x51: Mod51 -  80x51 Cross Compiler, ISO extensions
platforms DOS Hosted
office    128 Grange Rd
          Auckland 3
          New Zealand
contact
e-mail
voice     +64 9 6300 558
fax       +64 9 6301 720


Metrowerks
activity  M
products  standalone and MPW hosted compilers; Code Warrier environment
platforms Macintosh
  NOTE: Modula-2 NO LONGER SUPPORTED, but probably still available from:
          Bookmasters
          POB 2039 Mansfield
          OH, USA 44905
          Tel +1 (800) 247-6553
          Fax +1 (419) 281 6883
(see p1 GmbH)


The Mill Hill & Canterbury Group, Ltd.
activity  MD
products  Extended 32-bit Modula-2 with Oberon extensions (non-ISO),
Mathpak library
platforms OS/2 with full API incl. SOM/WPS and PM
Note: Object oriented language extensions similar to Oberon-2
contact  Neuhoff, Juergen
e-mail    76721.303@CompuServe.com  OR  mhc@webcom.com
WWW       http://www.webcom.com/mhc/welcome.html
demo      Try:  ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/os2/dev32/MOD201H.ZIP
           ftp-os2.cdrom.com
           ftp.leo.org
           ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/lang/mod201j.zip
CompuServe: GO CODEPORT (File Name MOD201J.ZIP)


ModulaWare
activity  MD
prod/plat Unix (680x0, SunSparc, I386, Linux, OS/9): MCS Modula-2 V4.5
          DEC VAX/OpenVMS & Alpha AXP/OpenVMS: MVR & MaX V4.0
          DOS/Windows: OM2 V1.1 (Modula-2 & Oberon-2 Compiler)
          DOS/Windows: Mithril V2 GUI/IDE/OOP-API for OM2
          Vendor for: OM2-XDS V2.06: (Oberon-2 and ISO Modula-2,
            generates ANSI C, with ANSI C source of ISO Modula-2 lib)
          Vendor for: MCS Modula-2 SVR3 (Interactive, SCO), SVR4
             (Novell UnixWare), PC/Linux, Solaris
office1   ModulaWare
          La Chanenche
          F-04340 Meolans Revel
          France
tel/fax   +33 92.81.30.99
contact   Guenter Dotzel
e-mail    100023.2527@compuserve.com
office2   ModulaWare
          Haselbachstr. 113
          D-97653 Bischofsheim
          Germany
tel/Fax  +49 (9772) 7101


p1 GmbH
activity  MD
products  MPW and Metrowerks Code Warrier hosted ISO compliant compilers
platforms Macintosh
office    Hogenbergstrasse. 20
          80686 Munich
          Germany
contact   Elmar Henne
e-mail    eh@p1.space.net
voice     +49 89-546 13 10
fax       +49 89-580 25 97


PMI Software
activity  MD
products  Modula-2 tools; dealer for Mandino Granville, XDS (see
listings)
platforms DOS and OS/2
contact   John McMonagle
office    PO Box 8402
          Green Bay WI 54311
voice     414-468-6040
fax       414-465-0464
bbs       414-465-1656
e-mail    johnm@online.dct.com
web       http://www.dct.com/~johnm/


Real Time Associates Ltd.
activity  D
products  Compilers, books, and training courses
platforms numerous
office    Canning House 59
          Canning Road Croyden Surrey
          CR0 6QF UK
voice     (+44) 081 656 7333
fax       (+44) 081 655 0401


Stony Brook Software
activity MD
products  Stonybrook Modula-2 ISO compatible. (Environment, editor,
resource editor, librarian, optimizing compiler, linker, debugger, many
extra libraries) Also offers Pascal+
platforms 16bit DOS, 32bit DOS extended, 16bit Windows, 32bit Windows
office    187 E. Wilbur, Suite 4
          Thousand Oaks
          CA 91360, USA
contact   Norman Black
e-mail    70274.611@compuserve.com
voice     +1 (805) 496-5837
BBS       +1 (805) 379-3357


TERRA Datentechnik
activity  D
products  Logitech/Multiscope support
platforms DOS
office    Bahnhofstrasse 33
          CH-8703 Erlenbach
          Switzerland
voice     +41 01 910 35 55
fax       +41 01 910 19 92
bbs       +41 01 910 35 31

TopSpeed Corp (formerly Clarion)
activity  MD
products  Topspeed Modula-2
          CDBW (has Windows VID, can link with TopSpeed M2
          Windows debugger WID available on Compuserve or on BBS)
platforms DOS, DOS Extender, MS-Windows 3.1 (with some work)
          OS/2
Plans:    (According to rumour) will sell Modula-2 only as an add-on to
            Clarion for Windows and not as a separate product. Several
            people have tried to get more info but without much luck.
office1   Clarion Software (Europe) Ltd.
          Clare House, Thompsons Close
          Harpenden, Herts, UK, AL5 4ES
voice    +441 582 763 200
fax      +441 582 768 222
tech sup +441 582 763 999
BBS      +441 582 763 666
office2   150 East Sample Road
          Pompano Beach
          FL  USA 33064
voice    1-800-354-5444 (free call in US)
voice2   1-305-785-4555 EXT. 105
fax      1-305-946-1650
BBS      1-305-785-2594
retail   http://www.singnet.com.sg/customers/cirrus/cirrus1.htm

xTech Ltd
activity  M
products  Native XDS-x86 - Modula-2/Oberon-2 compiler for x86 all OS
          XDS-C - Modula-2/Oberon-2 to ANSI C translator (all platforms)
          H2D (freeware) translates C header files to M2 Def Mods
platforms PC/DOS and DOS sessions under Windows 3.1 and OS/2 2.x,
          V3 (Warp), PC/OS/2 V2.x, V3 (Warp), PC/Win95, PC/WNT
          PC/Linux, - DEC Alpha AXP (Digital Unix, OpenVMS, WNT)
          Sun/Sparc Solaris, Sun/Sparc SunOS, DecStations, MIPS/Unix
          HP PA-Risc/HP-UX,others on request. (Mac no longer supported.)

e-mail    xds@iis.nsk.su
          also sold by ModulaWare and see PMI (above)
           and the shareware/demo section (below)
           for product availability
XDS WWW home page:
http://www.iis.nsk.su/xtech/xds/ or
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xds.html    (US mirror)
XDS mailing list
  send "subscribe xds" to majordomo@listserv@iis.nsk.su
evalutaion kits are available from these sites
also see ModulaWare and PMI (above) for product availability


3.2 Where can I get a free/shareware compiler on the net?
Note:  A net project to produce an OS/2 version of Modula-2 has apparently
died
in the light of commercial releases.

Fitted Software Tools Modula-2 for DOS
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/fst/fst-40s.lzh
  ftp://cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages/fst-40s.lzh
P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA
contact: Roger Carvalho
e-mail:  rogerc@metronet.com
snail    P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA
Note:   This compiler was developed by Roger Carvalho but is no longer
  actively supported. It essentially conforms to PIM version 3, but also
  supports some simple  and interesting OOP extensions.
  P. O. Box 867403 Plano, TX 75023 USA


Gardens Point Modula-2 for DOS, Linux and FreeBSD
  ftp://pluto.fit.qut.edu.au/pub/gpm
  ftp://ftp.fit.qut.edu.au//pub/gpm_modula2/
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/gpm
(The EMX version runs under OS/2 in protected mode and can be used to
generate OS/2 PM applications. It relies on the GNU tools from the EMX
package ported by Eberhard Mattes mattes@azu.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
which can be found at: ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/systems/os2/ and various
other mirror sites.

MacLogimo for the Macintosh
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/mac/maclogimo/

MacMETH Modula-2 for Macintosh
  ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/macmeth/
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/mac/macMETH/

MOCKA - Modula Compiler Karlsruhe (Non ISO)
  Universitaet Karlsruhe
  Institut fuer Programm- und Datenstrukturen
  Vincenz-Priessnitz-Strasse 3
  D-76128 Karlsruhe (FRG)
  Phone: *-49-721-608 6088        FAX: *-49-721-691462
  contact: Thilo Gaul
  email: [modula|gaul]@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de

  SUN 4        | SUN OS              | SPARC               |
  SUN 4        | Solaris2.x/SunOS 5.0| SPARC               |
  DEC Station  | ULTRIX              | R3000, R2000 (MIPS) |
  Silicon      | IRIX                | R3000, R2000 (MIPS) |
    Graphics   |                     |                     |
  Sony NEWS    | News                | MC 68020 with 68881 |
  SUN 3        | SUN OS              | MC 68020 with 68881 |
  HP 9000/300  | HPUX                | MC 68020 with 68881 |
  HP 9000/700  | HPUX                | C back end          |
  RS6000       | AIX                 | C back end          |
  PC           | Linux               | 80386               | +
  PC           | 386BSD              | 80386               | +
  C-back end   | UNIX                | different           |
  translates   |                     |                     |
  M-2 To C     |                     |                     |

The versions marked with a + are free; no order form must be sent, no
license fee to be paid. If you use them, please send an email to
modula@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de.
For more information have a look to
  http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~modula
See also ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/modula-2/  or
ftp://ftp.informatik.hu-berlin.de/pub/os/linux/mirrors/tsx-
11.mit.edu/packages/modula-2/ for a Linux version.

Turbo Modula-2 for Amiga
  (contact Amritpal Mann, Turbo@econet.demon.co.uk)
  Amiga Turbo Modula-2 may be obtained from your favourite AmiNet site as
the following files:
   /pub/aminet/dev/m2/TurboV1.3Part1.lha
   /pub/aminet/dev/m2/TurboV1.3Part2.lha

Ulm's Modula-2 System for SPARCv8 Workstations (non-ISO)
   ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/ulm/sun4/

xTech Ltd
 ( Windows 95/NT, OS-2, Linux native code and translators. ISO
compatible.)
Makes demo and pre-release versions with some restrictions available.
The download site for all versions is:
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xdsavail.html#demo

3.3 How about a Summary of Commercial ISO Products for the Major
Microcomputer platforms?

MS-DOS:
GPM, ModulaWare, Stony Brook
Windows95/NT:
ModulaWare, Stony Brook, XDS
OS/2:
Mill Hill, XDS
MacOS:
p1

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Rick Sutcliffe Math/Cmpt Trinity Western University <http://www.twu.ca/>
CDN Chair WG13, FAQ maintainer comp.lang.modula-2
<http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/rsutcliffe.html> <Not speaking officially>




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Subject: Modula-2 FAQ/part2
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4. WHERE CAN I GET SOURCE CODE, OTHER INFO?

4.1.1 Is there source or other info available on the net?
A. Here are some net sites I have accessed at one time or another. I am not
sure if
all are still available or what is in them.
  ftp://ee.newcastle.edu.au/pub/modula2/
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/
  ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/m2faq.html ( Home of this FAQ)
  ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/
  ftp://NIC.SWITCH.CH
  ftp://sageftp.inel.gov/ftp/pub/sage/
  ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/

WWW sites
http://www.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Programming_Languages/M
odula_2/

http://www.jumbo.com/prog/dos/modula2/

http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/

http://www.info.apple.com/dev/devinfo/languages.html (sparse M2 compiler
info)
http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~vollmer/mocka.html
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/M2info.html

http://www.ualberta.ca/~pkobly/

http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.html

4.2 What other FAQs or lists of pages are available?
A. Try  http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/Modula2.html
A2. http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/
A3. (commercial) http://www.dct.com/~johnm/M2info.html
A4. http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/Computer.html#Modula-2

A5. http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.html

A6. http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/Computer.html#Modula-2

A7. http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xdslinks.html



4.3  Where can I find graphics libraries, etc?
A1. Try the PMOS library for various platformsat
  <A
HREF=3D"http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/PMOS/PMOS.html
">http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/PMOS/PMOS.html
 (Australia)
   or, at one of the following sites:
  ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/code  (North America)
  ftp://cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages   (South Africa)
  ftp://dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl/pub/modula2   (Western Europe)
  ftp://ftp.cnit.nsk.su/pub/msdos/programm.ing/modula2   (Eastern Europe).

A2. there is a graphics library MultiGraph available through the MultiGraph
home
page at
http://www.ccas.ru/~iak/mg2.htm
  It supports nearly all the Super-VGA graphics modes on VESA-compatible
graphics boards, including high-color and true-color modes.
You may also contact
   Databiten AB
   P O Box 115
   811 22 Sandviken
   SWEDEN
   phone: +46 26 256493
   fax:   +46 26 253641
OR
   Department of Applied Acoustics
   Chalmers University of Technology
   Gothenburg, SWEDEN
   e-mail: bid@ta.chalmers.se
   fax : +46 31 145154
OR
   Alex Iakovlev
   Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
   40, Vavilov Street, Moscow, GSP-1, 117967, Russia
   mailto:iak@ccas.ru


4.4 Are there any mathematical libraries available?
A1. See Numerical Procedures in Modula-2 -- authorized translation of
Numerical
recipes in Pascal from PolyWare 1992 420 Ruston Rd Toronto, Ontario Canada

A2. A numerical analysis package (as Modula-2 source files) is now available=
=2E
Information can be found at:
http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/NumAnal.html
=46rom this point one can download a classical (PIM) version or a standard (=
ISO)
version.

The modules in this package are:
    Complex arithmetic: most of the usual operations, including the
         recently-requested SIN and COS.
    Matrices: operations on matrices of any size (up to a maximum
         size limit, of course) - things like addition, multiplication,
         inverse, solving linear equations, eigenvalues.
    Polynomials: including root-finding.
    Fast Fourier Transform.
    Solving ordinary differential equations.

A3. LMathLib is a library that defines a number of mathematical functions fo=
r
Modula 2 programs. Unlike other libraries of the same kind, LMathLib
patches the
Modula 2 compiler. All library functions are inlined as assembler code for t=
he
=46loating Point Unit. This results in faster code compared to the
traditional solution
with subroutine calls. Due to this machine dependent technique, you can use
the
library ONLY with the (free) GMD Modula System Mocka for Linux on INTEL
based machines. You can get the LMathLib library via anonymous ftp from
ftp://tee-1.tee.uni-essen.de/pub/Mocka/(132.252.131.33) Documentation is
included.



4.5  Where can I get a Modula-2 to C converter?
A: The program mtc is available by anonymous ftp from
  file://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/grosch/mtc.tar.Z
  file://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/programming/cocktail/mtc.tar.Z
  file://rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de/usenet/comp.archives/languages/modula-2/mtc
    An already ported version for DOS+DJGPP can be found at
file://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/programming/compilerbau/dos/mtc/
    There is an already ported Linux version too.  It can be found on the
Sun site at
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/lang/modula-2/
    Several of the compilers available work by producing C code and can
also serve
this purpose. See p1 and XDS listings.


4.6  Where can I get a Modula-2 to Modula-3 converter?
A. m2tom3 is available under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
License from
ftp://ftp-i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Modula-3-Contrib/m2tom3/
   m2tom3 is a system to port Modula-2 programs to Modula-3. It consists
of two parts:
 - A conversion program which tries to create a Modula-3 source text
   with the same semantics as the Modula-2 input while retaining the
   original look and feel as good as possible.
 - A base library which tries to emulate the Modula-2 standard library
   using the Modula-3 standard library.
  contact: Peter Klein
  office:  Ahornstrasse 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany
  e-mail:  pk@i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de.
  Tel.: +49/241/80-21316
  Fax.: +49/241/8888-218


4.7 Are there any Modula-2 applications around?
A. The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) develops and maintains a
now ~350,000 line public domain MODULA-2 reusable component library called
SAGE. For more information on SAGE send E-Mail to hotline@sage.inel.gov and
see the FTP server at ftp://sageftp.inel.gov/ftp/pub/sage/


4.8 Is there a Modula-2 version available for parallel processing?
A. IPD Modula-2* team has released version 9401 of the new Modula-2*
programming environment for several architectures.
You can get the IPD Modula-2* distributions for all supported architectures =
by
anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/programming/modula2star/
Please do not forget to use binary mode when retrieving any of them! Registe=
r
your copy with the registration secretary: ipdm2s@ira.uka.de For further
information and bug reports please contact the IPD Modula-2* team at
msc@ira.uka.de


4.9 Are there any compiler construction tools available?
A1. Some old ones appear in ftp://ftp.gmd.de/GMD/cocktail/

AA2. Coco/R generates recursive descent parsers and their associated scanner=
s
from attribute grammars.  Full source code, and a variety of simple example
applications are supplied in the distribution kits.  The Modula versions
(1.39 is the
latest) are available from
ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch:/pub/software/Coco
ftp://ftp.psg.com:/pub/modula-2/coco
ftp://cs.ru.ac.za:/pub/coco
ftp://ftp.fit.qut.edu.au:/pub/coco
There are versions for the MS-DOS compilers (JPI, FST, Logitech, StonyBrook,
Gardens Point), for the Mocka compiler for Linux and FreeBSD, as well as
for the
Gardens Point Unix compilers, including Linux and FreeBSD.  There is also a
version that produces TurboPascal units very similar to the Modula modules. =
A
port for the P1 compiler on the Mac should be available soon.  A port by Rol=
f
Schrader for TDI Atari Modula-2 is now available from
ftp://cs.ru.ac.za:/pub/coco/ATARI136.EXE  in the form of an MS-DOS self-
extracting file.  This may also be unpacked by using the LHA decompressor on
other systems.

A2. A copy of the EBNF for ISO Modula-2 can be found in
http://www.twu.ca/faculty/rsbook/Appendices/Ap3.nisus.html


4.10 Does anyone know of a lexical analysis tool that is written in
Modula-2 and
for Modula-2 code?
A.You want rex, part of Cocktail (also ll and lalr parser generators,
abstract syntax
trees, attribute grammar evaluators, tree  Free version:

ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de:/pub/programming/cocktail/

  ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/programming/compilerbau/  (includes a
dos version using DJGPP)

 Commercial version and support:
  Dr.-Ing. Josef Grosch        Tel.  : 0721-697061
  CoCoLab                      Fax   : 0721-661966
  Hagsfelder Allee 16          EMail : grosch@cocolab.sub.com
  D-76131 Karlsruhe


4.11 What can you tell me about debuggers?
A. For gnu, try http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/info/info/gdb.info,Modul=
a-
2

4.12 Is there an applications framework for Windows programming?
A. Try looking at
ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/sjr/m2afx.zip
orftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/programming/modula/
m2afx.zip

This software is an application framework that implements a number of classe=
s
that encapsulate the weirdness of the Windows C API and attempts to present
it in
a cleaner way to the Modula-2 programmer.

4.13 Does there exist something to convert a C header file to a Modula-2
DEFINITION MODULE file for me?
A. Try looking at the xTech Ltd site for the H2D freeware product on some
platforms
<A
4.14 Is there any Benchmark code out there?
A. Try looking at the xTech Ltd site for their benchmark suite.
http://www.dct.com/~johnm/xdsfbdlo.html#benchmarks


4.15 Where can I get the C code of a Modula-2 compiler?

A. Most Modula-2 compilers are written in Modula-2.  It seems
rather strange to me that one would want to trust the compilation of a
good language to a tool written in a poor one.

4.16 Can you help me with my assignments?
A. Some people may give you hints, but please do not subvert your professor
and
your education by submitting work other people do for you.

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5. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON CODE AND ALGORITHMS

5.1 Where can I get an algorithm for an efficient random number generator?
A1. Pierre L'Ecuyer: Efficient and Portable Combined Random Number Generator=
s,
Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 742-749. The RNG has a
period of
approximately 2.3E+18. Generating 1 000 000 numbers per second, that means
that
it would take over 73 000 years before it repeated a sequence.

A2.Have a look at
http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.html

A3.Look in the PMOS library. This one uses the 'Minimal standard random
number generator' described by Park & Miller, CACM 31,10,Oct 88 p1192. The
code has been checked for the 10001st random as specified in Park & Miller
p1195.
One site is:
ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/code/random/


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6. WHAT ARE SOME REFERENCE MATERIALS ON MODULA-2?

A1. A shareware text I have written is available as html in
http://www.twu.ca/rsbook/Welcome.html
mirrors: http://eiunix.tuwien.ac.at/Modula-2/rsbook/
and as postscript in ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/Modula-
2Text/Chapters.ps/

A2. A tutorial is available at the Jumbo site in
http://www.jumbo.com/prog/dos/modula2
A3.The manuals for some of the commercial products such as TopSpeed contain
much useful information.

A4. The Gardens Point sites have documentation available (see their listing
above.)

A5. A document called Modula-2 for Pascal programmers (Postscript,10 pages)
may
be fetched by anonymous ftp at
ftp://ee.newcastle.edu.au/pub/modula2/Modula2.ps.Z
The author has not updated the contents for a couple of years, so there may =
be
minor inaccuracies in terms of the current language standard.

A6. A variety of ETH papers are stored at ftp.ftp.ethz.ch in /doc/diss,
/doc/tech-
reports and /pub/oberon/docu

A7. What follows is a BIBLIOGRAPHY of some published materials in a table
delimited by two spaces between fields:

Author  Title  City  Publisher  Year  Subject

	Adams, J. Mack Gabrini, Philippe J & Kurtz, Barry L.  An
Introduction to
Computer Science with Modula-2  Lexington, MA  D.C. Heath & Co  1988
	Backhurst, Nigel G.  Mastering Modula 2  Wilmslow  Sigma  1988
	Beidler, John & Jackowitz, Paul  Modula-2  Boston  Prindle Weber &
Schmidt
1985
	Blaschek, G. & Pomberger, G.  Introduction To Programming With
Modula-2
Springer-Verlag  1990
	Budgen, David  Software Development with Modula-2  Reading, MA
Addison-
Wesley  1989
	Carmony, Lowell A. & Holliday, Robert L.  A First Course In
Modula-2  New
York  Computer Science Press  c1990
	Carroll, D. W.  Advanced Modula-2 Programming for the IBM PC  XT
and AT
Elsevier  1986
	Chirlian, Paul M.  Introduction to Modula-2  Beaverton, Or.  Matrix
Publishers
	Christian, Kaare  A guide to Modula-2  New York  Springer-Verlag  1986
	Cooling, J.E.  Modula-2 for Microcomputer Systems    Van Nostrand
Reinhold
1988
	Cooper, Doug  Oh My!  Modula-2!  New York  Norton  1990
	Cornelius, Barry  Programming with TopSpeed Modula-2  Reading, MA
Addison Wesley  1991
	Eisenbach, Susan & Sadler, Cristopher  Program Design with Modula-2
Reading, MA  Addison-Wesley  1989
	Elder, Jim   Compiler Construction: A Recursive Descent model  Hemel
Hempstead  England:  Prentice-Hall  1994
	Etling, Don  Modula-2 Programmer's Resource Book  Blue Ridge
Summit, PA
Tab Books  1988
	Feldman, Michael B.  Data Structures with Modula-2  Englewood
Cliffs, NJ
Prentice Hall  1988
	Ford, Gary & Wiener, Richard.  Modula-2: A Software Development
Approach
New York  Wiley  1985
	Gabrini, Philippe J. & Kurtz, Barry L.  Data Structures And
Algorithms With
Modula-2  Lexington, MA  DC Heath  c1992
	Gleaves, Richard  Modula-2 for Pascal Programmers  New York  Springer-
Verlag  1984
	Gough, K. John & Mohay, George M.  Modula-2: A Second Course In
Programming  Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice Hall  1988
	Greenfield, Stuart B.  Invitation to Modula-2    Petrocelli Books  1985
	Harrison, Rachael  Abstract Data Types in Modula-2  New York  Wiley
1989
Wiley
	Harter, Edward D.  Modula-2 Programming.  A First Course  Englewood
Cliffs, NJ  Prentice-Hall  1990
	Helman, Paul & Veroff, Robert  Walls and Mirrors: Intermediate Problem
Solving and Data. Modula-2  Menlo Park, CA  Benjamin Cummings  1988
	Hewitt, Jill A. & Frak, Raymond J.  Software Engineering in
Modula-2:  an
object-oriented approach   London  Macmillan  1989.
Hille, R.F.  Data Abstraction and Program Development Using Modula-2  Sydney
Prentice Hall  1989
	Hopper, Keith.  The Magic of Modula-2  Melbourne  Prentice Hall  1991
	Johnston, Chris  Applying Modula-2   Academic Press  1991
	Jones, William C. Jr.  Data Structures Using Modula-2  New York
Wiley  1988
	Jones, William C. Jr.  Modula-2 Problem Solving and Programming
with Style
New York  Harper & Row  1987
	Joyce, Edward J.  Modula-2: A Seafarer's Manual & Shipyard Guide
Reading,
MA  Addison-Wesley   1985
	Kaplan, Ian & Miller, Mike  Modula-2 Programming  Rochelle Park, NJ
Hayden Book Co.  1986
	Kelly-Bootle, Stan  Modula-2 Primer    Howard W. Sams & Co.  1987
	King, K.N.  Modula-2: A Complete Guide  Lexington, MA  D.C. Heath &
Co
1988
	Knepley, Ed & Platt, Robert  Modula-2 Programming  Reston, VA  Reston
Pub. Co.  1985
	Koffman, Elliot B.  Problem Solving and Structured Programming in
Modula-2
Reading, MA  Addison-Wesley  1988
	Kruse, Robert L.  Programming With Data Structures Modula-2 Version
Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice-Hall  1988
	Lawrence, Mike  Modula-2 And The Amiga  Avant-Garde Software  1990?
	Leestma, Sanford & Nyhoff, Larry  Programming & Problem-Solving in
Modula-2  New York  Macmillan  1989
	Lins, C. (Charles)  The Modula-2 Software Component Library Volumes
I-IV
New York  Springer-Verlag  1989-
	Mayer, Herbert G.  Programming in Modula-2.  the Art & the Craft
New York
Macmillan  1988
	McCracken, Daniel D. & W. Salmon  A Second Course in Computer Science
with Modula-2  New York  Wiley  1987
	Messer, P. A. & I. Marshall  Modula-2 Constructive Program
Development
Oxford  Blackwell Scientific Publications  1986
	Metrowerks, Inc. Staff  Metrowerks Modula-2 Start Pak  New York
Macmillan
1990
	Mitchell, R. J.  Modula-2 Applied   London  Macmillan  1991
	Mitchell, Richard  Abstract Data Types And Modula-2  A Worked
Example Of
Design Using Data Abstraction   Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice Hall  1992
	Moore, John B. & McKay, Kenneth N.  Modula-2 Text and Reference
Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice-Hall  1987
	Novak, M.M.  Modula-2 in Science & Engineering  London  McGraw  1990
	Nyhoff, Larry & Leestma ,Sanford  Data Structures & Advanced
Programming
in Modula-2  New York  Macmillan  1990
	Ogilvie, John W. L.  Modula-2 Programming  New York  McGraw-Hill  1985
	Pinson, Lewis Sincovec, Richard & Weiner, Richard  A First Course in
Computer Science with Modula-2  New York  Wiley  1987
	Pittman, Thomas & Peters, James  The Art Of Compiler Design Theory And
Practice  Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice-Hall  1992
	Pomberger, Gustav.   Software Engineering and Modula-2  Englewood
Cliffs,
NJ  Prentice Hall  1984
	Rechenberg, P. & M=F6ssenb=F6ck, H. (tr. O'Meara, John)  A Compiler
Generator
for Microcomputers  Englewood Cliffs, NJ  Prentice Hall / Carl Hanser
Verlag  1989
	Riley, David D.  Data Abstraction and Structures: An Introduction
To Computer
Science II  Boston  Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co.  1987
	Riley, David D.  Using Modula-2: An Introduction To Computer
Science I
Boston  Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co.  1987
	Sale, Arthur H. J.  Modula-2: Discipline & Design  Sydney
Addison-Wesley
1986
	Sawyer, Brian & Foster, Dennis.   Programming Expert Systems in
Modula-2
New York  Wiley  1986
	Schildt, Herbert  Advanced Modula-2  Berkeley, CA  Osborne
McGraw-Hill
1987
	Schildt, Herbert  Modula-2 Made Easy  Berkeley, CA  Osborne
McGraw-Hill
1986
	Schiper, Andre; (tr. Howlett, Jack)  Concurrent programming:
Illustrated With
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	Schnapp, Russell L.  Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2  Englewood
Cliffs, NJ
Prentice-Hall  1986
	Sincovec, Richard F. & Richard S. Wiener.   Data Structures Using
Modula-2
New York  Wiley  1986
	Sincovec, Richard F. & Wiener, Richard S.  Modula-2 Software
Components
New York  Wiley  1987
	Stubbs, Daniel F. & Webre, Neil W.  Data Structures With Abstract
Data Types
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	Sutcliffe, Richard J.  Introduction to Programming Using Modula-2
Columbus,
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	Sutcliffe, Richard J. mailto:rsutc@charity.twu.ca. Modula-2:
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	Sutcliffe, Richard J. Standard Generic Modula-2 (Document
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09 16)
	Sutherland, Robert J.  The Professional Programmer's Guide to
Modula-2
London  Pitman  1988
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1985
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New York   McGraw-Hill  1988
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New
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	Walker, Billy K  Modula-2 Programming With Data Structures
Belmont, CA
Wadsworth Pub. Co.  1986
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Reference  Blue
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	Ward, Terry A.  Advanced Programming Techniques in Modula-2
Glenview, IL
Scott Foresman  1987
	Welsh, Jim & Elder, John  Introduction to Modula-2  Englewood
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	Wiatrowski, Claude A. & Wiener, Richard S.  From C to Modula-2--and
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	Wiener, Richard  Modula-2 Wizard's Programming Reference  New York
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	Wiener, Richard & Ford, G.  Modula-2 A Software Development Approach
New York  Wiley  1985
	Wiener, Richard & Sincovec, R. F.  Software Engineering with
Modula-2 and
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	Wirth, Niklaus  Programming in Modula-2 (4th ed.)   New York  Springer-
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	Woodman, Mark et al  Portable Modula-2 Programming  Maidenhead,
Berkshire UK  McGraw-Hill  1989

7. REVIEWS OF MODULA-2 PRODUCTS.

Note: The reviews have been contributed by others and I take no
responsibility for
their accuracy or for any opinions expressed therein. I have updated some
of the
facts.

p1 Modula-2 v5.2 for Macintosh, by Marc Martin, Dec 1994.This is an excellen=
t
Modula-2 compiler, implemented as an MPW Tool. Highlights include ISO
language extensions & library, a full set of Macintosh toolbox definitions,
language
extensions to simplify toolbox programming, object-oriented extensions and
support for MacApp, greater than 32k code and globals, code generation
comparable to Apple's official compilers, several FPU code options,
multi-window
debugger, linkable with other MPW languages, detailed documentation, and
superb technical support via e-mail. Downsides include high cost (US$400),
dependency on MPW, lack of SADE support, and no native PowerPC version.
Version 5.3 is in alpha testing, and adds ANSI C output for creating PowerPC
programs under MPW or CodeWarrier.  (Now at 5.4 and still no native PC back
end -RS)

GPM, MOD32, TopSpeed and XDS are reviewed at
http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/ee/Moylan/os2/os2m2.html

Appendix: AUTHOR INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMERS

Personal: I have used, written about, and taught Modula-2 (since 1983) and
have
maintained some of the information in this list for over seven years. I
have used at
least a dozen different compiler/environments in that time on five different
platforms, and have written numerous articles and reviews for publication.
I have
been a member of the ISO committee WG13 (Modula-2 standardization) since its
inception and have participated in all the debates and meetings of WG13 exce=
pt
for meeting #9 at Lake Wanaka. I have written a text on Modula-2 (now
shareware), made numerous submissions to WG13 and directed an
implementation of the ISO I/O library in order to verify its concepts. I am
the
author and project editor of Standard Generic Modula-2.

Disclaimers:
(i) I take no responsibility for anyone's use or misuse of this information.
(ii) Apart from having been a beta tester, textbook writer, programmer and
a long
time user of Modula-2, I have no financial connection with any manufacturer =
or
distributor of software. I am the author of some Modula-2 materials (some of
which are shareware) as noted herein.
(iii) In producing this material, I am NOT acting in an official capacity
for TWU,
WG13, ABC, IEEE, ACM, comp.lang.modula2, or any other organization.
(iv) Mention of a book or product is NOT an endorsement unless specifically
noted.
(v) Inclusion of materials on this list is based on relevance to Modula-2
and factual
content and is otherwise entirely without prejudice. I edit all submissions
for
brevity, clarity, and usage.

To remain authoritative, this and all versions of this FAQ are copyright
1991-1996
by Rick Sutcliffe. This document may be copied and distributed provided it
is not
altered and no fee is charged with the exception of normal downloading costs=
=2E

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Trinity Western University
7600 Glover Rd.,
Langley, B.C. Canada V2Y 1Y1
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Rick Sutcliffe Math/Cmpt Trinity Western University <http://www.twu.ca/>
CDN Chair WG13, FAQ maintainer comp.lang.modula-2
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