#Contd.. Modula-2/Amiga
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Phil – I see a lot of folks using Wirth's single pass compiler. Is there any
chance you all might go the same route? It would require revamping the entire
system but the pluses just might outweigh the minuses. Also, just for the
record, I purchased an MS-DOS Modula-2 compiler from Modula Corp. Those folks
provide absolutely no support. They do have a great debugger, though, and
have implemeted most of their products for the 68K. Any chance you could all
work out a deal with them (I guess they're still pretty active in Europe) to
include their debugger with your product line? It's not as good as Micosoft's
CodeView (few, if any, are) but it still is condsiderably
better than TDI's (no offense). Also I'd like to add that your optimizing
linker is excellent. Slow, maybe, but I like having small executables. Most
things I hack on are small utilities. Having a single-purpose routine taking
up 20K on a disk would be quite wasteful.
compiler technology. Our aim to to slowly integrate the singl{ pass compiler
into our products, but we will be keeping the multi-pass compiler. We have a
lot of customers who prefer the relaxed positional aspects of multi-pass
compilers (ie. you can put routines where you want in the source).
The single-pass compiler also has the advantage of{being much simpler to
develop debuggers for, we are slowly puttin{ the better aspects of the
single-pass compiler design into our multi-pass compiler.
Phil Camp.
Our new Amiga product due out late summer is ~K_based on single-pass …