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Larry – I don't want to argue the merits of TDI and their Modula-2 system but is Benchmark just a "little extra money". If you get everything, you're dropping about $500 (if my memory serves me correctly). I must admit that from what I've seen of it Benchmark is an excellent system. The only flaw(s) I can really see are the extensive use of ADDRESS types as arguments. This "feature" tends to leave it a bit to wide open for errors, as far as I'm concerned. Getting back to TDI: If the improvements that Phil Camp mentions are really in the works and if TDI is planning on improving their customer relations than the product will indeed have some merits. The code, you must admit, is some of the tightest you'll find in a high level language for the Amiga. The problems, as Phil Camp mentioned in an earlier message, are generally in the supplied libraries. That's no excuse, of course, but fixing the libraries is considerably less involved than fixing a bad compiler/linker.