Re: [Gm2] running gm2 on ubuntu-i386

[Norayr Chilingarian]

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>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
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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.
> 
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