Re: [Gm2] running gm2 on ubuntu-i386

[Christoph Schlegel]

Why don't you try to write to the email-adress provided (see link by jose 
ramon)?

christoph

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> Datum: Sun, 06 Mar 2011 21:54:15 +0400
> Von: Norayr Chilingarian <address@hidden>
> An: jose ramon mazaira <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Betreff: Re: [Gm2] running gm2 on ubuntu-i386

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> would like to test(play) it on Linux, but it seems there are only wintel
> binaries, and no sources
> pity :)
> any clue how to contact the author?
> Norayr
> 
> On 03/06/11 20:14, jose ramon mazaira wrote:
> > You're absolutely right. I've found the translator at
> > http://www.modula2.org/projects/m1l.php .
> > In fact, the only reason I have to search for this translator is
> > because, unfortunately, pascal (not to mention C) has had a much more
> > wide audience and applications than m2, although I personally prefer
> > (and use much more intensively) m2. So when I need to use a numerical
> > library written in pascal I find more easy to compile my project in
> > pascal. Perhaps this has been the reason because some 'oldies' like
> > fortran have had so much use.
> > 
> > 2011/3/6, Norayr Chilingarian <address@hidden>:
> >>>> do you plan to release an open-source
> >>>> translator from Modula-2 to Oberon or Object Pascal?
> > 
> > Why do you need one?
> > Modula-2 is a very beautiful language, for me it's nice to have
> > possibility to write code in M2 instead of writing in Pascal.
> > I like M2 more than what we now call "object pascal".
> > And glade3 provides relatively simple ways to build GTK+ applications,
> > if GUI is considered.
> > Besides, Wirth himself designed his languages without backwards
> > compatibility, i. e. M2 is unable to compile Wirth's Pascal source code,
> > and Oberon is unable to compile M2 code.
> > Because very often in order to do a good design it is necessary to not
> > be compatible with previous versions. C++ did another way, Straustrup
> > was trying to keep compatibility with C. However, he didn't fully
> > succeed, and, I don't know anyone who uses g++ to compile plain C.
> > There's gcc for that :)
> > So, what am I talking is that I've read that at the time Wirth designed
> > M2 he also prepared Pascal -> Modula-2 converter, and after he designed
> > Oberon, he prepared Modula-2 -> Oberon converter.
> > May be it makes sense to search in the internet(s) in order to find
> > something like that. But M2->Pascal converter is not reasonable, I
> > think. I remember there was a guy, in the comp.lang.modula-2, who have
> > been written a M2 to fpc converter, so he can write in M2 and compile
> > the resulting code with fpc.
> > Right now it's not necessary, we have GM2 which is a very nice peace of
> > work by itself.
> > 
> > Sincerely,
> > Norayr Chilingarian
> > ---
> > http://norayr.arnet.am
> > 
> > On 03/06/11 07:44, jose ramon mazaira wrote:
> >>>> First of all, I'd like to thank you your effort in building a high
> >>>> quality, open-source, modula-2 compiler.
> >>>> I've also installed it and I've been able to run it finally without
> >>>> problems. Before that, I experienced some trouble that I've solved
> >>>> successfully, so I hope that my experience can be useful for
> potential
> >>>> users. The trouble I had was related to the ranlib library, which is
> >>>> part of the binutils package. The compiler complained that an library
> >>>> file (.a) was missing.The only thing I did was to upgrade to the most
> >>>> recent version of binutils (2.20.51).
> >>>> I think that a link to Modulipse IDE in your page could be useful for
> >>>> potential users.
> >>>> I have an additional question: do you plan to release an open-source
> >>>> translator from Modula-2 to Oberon or Object Pascal?
> >>>> Thank you very much.
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> gm2 mailing list
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> >>>> http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gm2
> >>>>
> > 
> >>
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