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ITC Modula

    22-Nov-87 16:01:28
Sb: #94364-ITC Modula
Fm: Steve Faiwiszewski 74106,425
To: Thomas Holaday 70407,534
The ITC compiler is not "very buggy", not a one-person effort, and IS capable of producing stand-alone code. It is somewhat similar to Benchmark, but has a worse (in my opinion anyway) user interface and better runtime execption handling and termination. It sells for about the same as Benchmark (~$250). There are some strange limitations and/or bugs, but these ARE documented, and so far I haven't ran into any of them. Their convention for the support module stuff is quite a departure from the stuff we are used to in Benchmark and TDI, so porting over code from the other compilers can be a major pain in the A**! I'll cover it more thouroughly in a future AC article. – Steve – /ex