Re: [Gm2] running gm2 on ubuntu-i386

[jose ramon mazaira]

2011/3/6, jose ramon mazaira <address@hidden>:
> 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>:
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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
>> - ---
>> 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.
>>>
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