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07/03/2009
Objective Modula-2 will from now on be accessible at http://objective.modula2.net/.
You may also be interested in a question asked in comp.lang.modula2: "I wonder what everybody's interest in Modula-2 is. Are you simply interested because you have to maintain legacy code or are you actually doing new development in Modula-2, if so which area? system development? embedded? GUI apps? Web? Or is your interest only due to being taught M2 at university and you're out of here as soon as the course finishes?". For those who do not use a browser to access newsgroups click here.
06/22/2009
A new file for Xcode syntax colouring for PIM Modula-2 is available at the homepage of Objective Modula-2 (scroll down, it is near the bottom of the page). The announcement can be found in the archives of comp.lang.modula2.
A few weeks ago I mentioned Zonnon here. A post in comp.lang.modula2 now pointed me to a forum for the language - just in case you got interested.
05/18/2009
Benjamin Kowarsch has kindly made ANTLR grammars for both PIM3 and ISO Modula-2 available. These were made for documentation purposes but can be used to generate syntax diagrams with ANTLRworks. The original announcement of the author was posted in comp.lang.modula2.
Other news: Latest entries to the GNU Modula-2 ChangeLog (and latest regression test results) have been reported to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list.
05/17/2009
Zonnon is definitly not Modula-2 but a language closer to its ancestor than for example Oberon. A short description from Wikipedia: "Zonnon is a general purpose programming language in the Pascal, Modula-2 and Oberon family. Its conceptual model is based on objects, definitions, implementations and modules. Its computing model is concurrent, based on active objects which interact via syntax controlled dialogs. The language is being developed at ETH Zürich Institute for Computer Systems by Prof. Jürg Gutknecht. Zonnon introduces the concept of 'active objects' which are used to represent real world concurrent objects within computer programs." You may be interested in the language report and the compiler. While Zonnon can be used with Visual Studio 2005 (there are implementations for .NET and Mono/Eclipse) there is also a simple open source IDE called Zonnon Builder available.
05/02/2009
Latest changes to the source code of GNU Modula-2 have been reported to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list.
There was some noise in comp.lang.modula2 recently. Some of you may be interested in the discussed topics.
Chris Burrows informed me about a second (1-pass) Modula-2 compiler included in Emulith (link to ftp-server).
Last but not least I want to interest you in a message and thread in the XDS Modula-2 forums. We may have a chance to bring life to a Modula-2 IDE. So please express your interest.
03/09/2009
The homepage of the Kronos research group was updated recently. You may be interested in the sourcecode of the Kronos workstation which is now available under a BSD-license. There is also an emulator and a lot of amazing information on the history of the system. Wikipedia provides a good overview.
Other news: Sometimes people tell me about quite amazing things.
03/04/2009
A few months ago the description of Objective Modula-2 was deleted by Wikipedia because of the lack of an implementation. Objective Modula-2 is "a hybrid between Smalltalk and Modula-2 based on the object model and runtime of Objective-C. The design is an example how native Cocoa/GNUstep support can be added to static imperative programming languages without implementing a bridge." Benjamin Kowarsch now informs via the GNU Modula-2 mailing list that the project is alive. Some papers and code can be fetched from the projects homepage. [UPDATE:] I just recognized the Objective Modula-2 Homepage is now also part of the Modula-2 website ring which has its home at ModulAware.com.
02/22/2009
Jos Dreesen released a new version of Emulith, the register-level emulation of the Lilith hardware. Version 1.2 (release notes) introduces a native Windows port and some interesting new features. [UPDATE:] The official announcement by the developer is available. And did I mention that Emulith includes a Modula-2 compiler?
02/08/2009
Three links to messages documenting the latest changes to GNU Modula-2: 21 Jan 2009, 04 Feb 2009, 04 Feb 2009.
01/11/2009
Several messages document recent changes to the sources of GNU Modula-2: 05 Jan 2009, 07 Jan 2009 and 10 Jan 2009. Most important the implementation of type COMPLEX (COMPLEX, LONGCOMPLEX, SHORTCOMPLEX and if the architecture/gcc
runtime supports them COMPLEX32, COMPLEX64, COMPLEX96 and COMPLEX128) is nearly complete.
12/18/2008
Andreas F. Borchert announced the availability of some historic Modula-2 material in comp.lang.modula2. Available for download are "the sources of the ETH Zurich Multipass Modula-2 compiler for the Lilith and an emulator, written in C, which we used in 1983 to bootstrap to another platform. You'll find this material along with some instructions how to revive all this with the help of a simulator of the Interdata 8/32 from the Computer History Simulation Project at http://www.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/modula/history/."
Recent changes to the sources of GNU Modula-2 have been reported to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list.
12/09/2008
Jos Dreesen released Emulith. This interesting piece of software is a register-level emulation of the Lilith hardware. "You will need a reasonably fast PC running Linux and having at least 1280x1024 resultion." The author reports that the emulator also runs under OS-X and CygWin/x (download via ftp).
12/04/2008
Daniele Marangoni sent new files for Notepad++. The archive contains a Modula-2 API definition for Notepad++ v.5.0.3 to be used with the XDS Modula-2 compiler.
12/01/2008
Gaius Mulley sent two interesting mails to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. First one informs that "Steve Giess has kindly contributed a port of xmodula to gm2. I've just wrapped it up with a standard configure, Makefile, ChangeLog etc. It appears to work with the current cvs gm2 on a variety of i386 and x86_64 GNU/Linux platforms albeit the release number is 0.1."
The other mail informs that "Michael Lambert has kindly built gm2 for the Alpha platform running Debian GNU/Linux Stable. Both this platform and x86_64 are using the LP64 memory model and both platforms are seeing no regression test failures at present."
11/29/2008
Web Family Tree is a freeware program by Peter J. Moylan that permits you to display your family tree in a web browser. It is a Modula-2 program using the common gateway interface. The source code is available. Those interested in this relatively simple way of getting a graphical interface for Modula-2 programs may be interested in the CGI related pages by Jan Verhoeven.
Other news: There is a new page describing howto create a Debian package for GNU Modula-2.
11/21/2008
Binary packages of GNU Modula-2 0.68 are available since november 8th to the public capable of using Debian repositories. Please help to test the upcoming release of the compiler.
11/04/2008
GNU Modula-2 0.63 has been released. There have been a lot of recent changes accompanied by discussions in the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. Big steps were made with the implementation of ISO features and the ISO libraries (The archives of the mailing list for October and September have more). Anyway, here is the release announcement, and an email with details on some changes and additions. Up to date documentation is also available. [Update:] Gaius Mulley published an updated changelog.
09/17/2008
There is a simple page to help you getting started with Google Code Search. Most sites and download locations offering Modula-2 sources can already be found there. But some of you still might want to add something (you may also add CVS and Subversion repositories).
Some information on the progress and the plans related to GNU Modula-2 is again available at the GNU Modula-2 mailing list.
09/06/2008
Latest changes to the source code of GNU Modula-2 have been reported to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. [Update:] Gaius Mulley has made available a screencast showing that Python can catch GNU Modula-2 exceptions.
More and more parts of Murus are translated by Jan Verhoeven and published in the download section of the Mocka and Modula-2 mailinglist. Mr Verhoeven also announced a working version of a compiler for the PLOV language which seems to be a simplified version of Modula-2.
08/15/2008
Thanks to Jos Dreesen more Lilith goodies are availeble now. "Most important is a binary image of the Lilith Systemdisk, and a subdirectory containing all files ( more then 700..) of that systemdisk. Among these files are: Medos binaries and source code. Modula-2 compiler binaries with source code. Lilith system utilities with source code. Bootfiles and system files. Lilith microcode source and assembler. Also available are hardware docu and some screenshots."
Page Six an IRC-bot written entirely in Modula-2 has got a new home temporarily.
A little program available in a lot of different programming languages seems to need improvement.
08/08/2008
Two documents (Generics In Modula-2: ISO/IEC 10514-2 and Object Oriented Modula-2: ISO/IEC 10514-3) are now available from the Modula-2/Oberon-2 Sources Store (scroll down in the download-section). I could not open one of the files but the other one still was and is very interesting lecture. Maybe some of you are interested.
07/14/2008
More and more interesting facts (for those interested in the history of Modula-2) about Modula-GM, the Modula-2 dialect used and developed by General Motors and Delco Electronics are published at the GMnext Wiki. One example is an article about the Development of Modula-GM, another one sums up the Development of Electronics for Indy 500 cars and engines.
Recent messagess to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list document interesting changes to the GNU Modula-2 compiler. Exception handling seems to work now and some examples are there to help you getting started. This is a major step towards ISO compliance.
07/06/2008
A new project was started at SourceForge.net. It is called Modula2Plugin and still in a very early planning stage. Description from the project page: "The goal of this project is to provide an IDE for Modula-2 in the form of a plug-in for Eclipse and/or an add-in for Visual Studio (2008). It will be integrated with the XDS Modula-2 compiler."
07/01/2008
Tom Breeden published a beta version of Aglet Modula-2, a compiler generating native PPC code he developed for Amiga OS4. Beta means please help in testing.
06/29/2008
A special version of Rowley Modula-2 is now available from the languages section of Ram Meenakshisundaram's Transputer Home Page at classiccmp.org. While I knew there were versions of this compiler for OS-9/68K this seems to be a version for the Transputer HeliOS system. I didn't manage to open the archive so anyone out there who knows more?
06/15/2008
Gaius Mulley reports recent changes to GNU Modula-2 to the gm2 mailing list: "With these fixes and additions the examples in gm2/examples/swig work. Specifically it now allows users to create shared libraries given an implementation module. The examples/swig/strio will now flush the buffers during the FINALLY statement sequence. Thus users should be able to implement Python modules using GNU Modula-2, so long as the top level definition module uses base types."
05/04/2008
Some messages to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list document recent changes to the GNU Modula-2 compiler. There is also a message requesting your opinion about the implementation of shared library support. Finally basic Swig support is now available. "This allows scripting languages (perl, python and tcl) to access Modula-2 implementation modules." (Information about Swig).
04/21/2008
The sources of Medos have recently been announced and are now available. Medos was the operating system of the Lilith workstation, the famous computer designed by Niklaus Wirth.
An updated version of the QDTools package by P. Guiochon is available from the download area.
And the latest changelog of GNU Modula-2 was posted to the mailing list.
04/14/2008
Two recent messages by Gaius Mulley to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list document a lot of changes to the compiler. New data types and support for exceptions are only two examples from a long list of changes. Some explanations and clarifications can be found in another message.
03/09/2008
Files needed for Modula-2 syntax highlighting with Notepad++ are now available from the download-area. A short readme is included in the archive. Thanks a lot for providing your work!
02/26/2008
I just built GNU Modula-2 using the Cygwin Layer on a Windows Vista Laptop [UPDATE: download the build (~19MB)]. It compiled and installed out of the box (using the latest archive gcc-4.1.2+gm2-cvs-latest.tar.gz). I built a simple hello world program just to test functionality: GM2 and Vista - impressive (more information).
Some Modula-2 enthusiasts may be interested in a bunch of documents related to the Lilith personal computer. Chris Burrows found them and they are available from Bitsavers.org.
Some of you may also be interested in a syntax highlighter for Notepad++ which can be requested via email.
02/18/2008
Looking around I found a page entitled Objective Modula-2 1.00 (Reference Implementation). Another infunctional link can be found at Softpedia. Both links were added in july 2007 and are broken at the moment (old infunctional adress). "Objective Modula-2 is an extension to Modula-2 which follows the Objective-C object model and retains the bracketed Smalltalk message passing syntax introduced in Objective-C. Like Objective-C, Objective Modula-2 is a reflective, object oriented programming language with both static and dynamic typing. It is intended as a safer alternative to Objective-C for Cocoa and GNUstep software development. It retains most of Modula-2's features, most importantly data encapsulation with nested modules, explicit import and export lists and strict type checking" (description taken from Wikipedia). Does anybody have more information? Who is the developer mentioned at the listed sites?
02/11/2008
Interesting news from the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. Gaius Mulley uploaded some screen-casts to show you the complete process of building the GNU Modula-2 compiler. "If anyone is wanting to build GNU Modula-2, but is a little unsure how to go about it then this is how I build it on a Debian Etch 64bit machine."
David Moreno, developer of Modulipse, sent a message to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list describing howto build the compiler on a computer running Microsoft Windows using a Cygwin environment. Please note that some of the steps he describes are no longer necessary as they were applied to the sources of the compiler already.
Last but not least you may be interested in the latest changes to the gm2 compiler.
01/23/2008
Modulipse, the Modula-2 IDE based on the Eclipse platform, got a homepage now.
01/21/2008
GNU Modula-2 now supports constant literal constructors conforming to the ISO Modula-2 standard. Gaius Mulley reported this and a lot of other recent changes to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. The archive of the mailing list also contains a thread called Modula-2 IDE which informs about Modulipse and the Alpha editor family. The latter provides a powerful Modula-2 mode and recently added support for GNU Modula-2.
01/13/2008
Modulipse 0.0.2 was released last friday. The changelog informs about the following changes: procedure folding now works correctly for nested procedures, there is an overlay icon to distinguish Modula-2 projects now, code templates for procedure definitions were added, the user guide has been updated and reorganized, and unnecessary classes and icons were removed.
01/04/2008
A happy new year to those who care. While the world still sticks to programming in C++, Java and other languages, some may be interested in algorithms written in Modula-2 by Thomas Maurer. He publishes these every now and then. And if you are already there, have a look at his Murus project which is constantly evolving and changing and improving. There is also Murus.org. Translations of (parts of) Murus will eventually be made available by Jan Verhoeven, maintainer of the Mocka and Modula-2 group.
12/25/2007
Jos� David Moreno Ju�rez released a first version of Modulipse a Modula-2 IDE for Eclipse. There are binary packages for Win32, Linux/gtk/x86, MacOSX (ppc and x86) and Solaris/gtk. Sources are also available. Those who have Eclipse installed can simply point the Eclipse update manager to the update site at http://modulipse.sourceforge.net. [UPDATE:] I tested this on Debian testing and installed it on Windows Vista and it works fine. While the integration with GNU Modula-2 works fine under Linux I guess I will have to use XDS Modula-2 under Vista for now. There is also a Wiki for the project now. And here is a link to the Modulipse download page.
12/08/2007
Gaius Mulley informs about the latest changes to GNU Modula-2. You may also be interested in a new page which informs about regression tests the GNU Modula-2 does and does not pass (announcement).
10/25/2007
Debian (Etch) packages of GNU Modula-2 targeting ARM are now available. Gaius Mulley, developer of GNU Modula-2, assembled packages for ppc64 (ps3), i386 and amd64.
10/14/2007
The Q&D Tools package available from the local download area was updated recently. Some bugs were fixed, some features added, as P. Guiochon, author of the pack reported. Binaries of some of the utilities included will be part of a FreeDOS distribution.
10/09/2007
Google's advanced code search is getting better and better. It is possible to search for Modula-2 code for some time now but while the search didn't come up with many (interesting) hits in the early days it is now a very well working tool. It reveals interesting code, snippets and libraries, especially if one invests some time. An example.
Other news: New Modulipse screenshots are available demonstrating independence of platforms and languages.
10/06/2007
GNU Modula-2 0.62 is out. All options which refer to code generation are now invoked by -f. A Logitech Modula-2 compatible module BlockOps is now available. Access to the 'memmove' builtin was also introduced. Read the announcement to the gm2 mailing list or view the full changelog.
09/30/2007
A member of the Mocka Modula-2 Yahoo Group announced a modified Mocka Modula-2 distribution which produces small binaries consuming very few ressources. More information is available. [UPDATE:] The Mocka package is available from the download area of the group now.
Other news: The latest changes to GNU Modula-2 were announced to the GNU Modula-2 mailing list.
09/20/2007
Les May reminded me of a package I created some time ago to keep FST Modula-2 alive. While there were some problems with it for users of Windos 2000, Windows XP seems to be a better choice for users of this great tool. I also tested the pack with Vista and did not have any problems. But I do not know and I do not want to know what happens to your computers when trying to start one of the system-near example programs which usually interrupted the flow of things.
As also proposed via the guestbook I added the freeware Editor PSPad to my list of Modula-2 aware editors.
09/04/2007
Jan Verhoeven made available a Dutch version of Niklaus Wirths book Compiler construction. The book dates back to 1986 and describes how to build a PL/0 compiler. Translators are invited to help us non-Dutch-speaking people out. More details are available at the Mocka and Modula-2 mailing list.
08/19/2007
Great news. GNU Modula-2 0.61 is out "which is available in source form or as a Debian binary for i386, ppc64 (PlayStation 3) and amd64".
08/13/2007
Gaius Mulley announced the availability of GNU Modula-2 packages containing a cross compiler for building ATMega8 binaries. Some instructions and a simple example are available to add the packages to your system and test the compiler.
07/17/2007
GNU Modula-2 now builds with a patched version of gcc 4.1.2; The latest message of Gaius Mulley to the gm2 mailing list has more on a huge number of recent changes (ChangeLog).
05/28/2007
Snowman, moderator of the XDS Forum, elaborates on the 64 bit future of Excelsiors Modula-2/Oberon-2 compiler (scroll down to find the message).
Other news: If you do not follow the GNU Modula-2 mailing list, there is an interesting message containing details on the latest changes to the compiler sources.
05/16/2007
New screenshots of Modulipse, a project to integrate Eclipse and GNU Modula-2, are available since may 1st. They demonstrate the ISO awareness of the project which will hopefully be available to the public soon. Jose David Moreno, creator of the project, also said he doesn't plan to add support for other compilers than GNU Modula-2 but it won't be too hard to code new features.
Other news: There is some noise in the Excelsior XDS Forum which may contain interesting bits and pieces for some of us. User Uranus also reminds us of the second birthday of the XDS Modula-2/Oberon-2 freeware release.
05/05/2007
Some time ago I uploaded a Wikipedia stub on Modula-2+. Everyone who knows more is invited to extend the article.
04/21/2007
The Free Modula-2 Pages celebrated their fifth birthday on April 17. Thanks to all who participate(d) and support(ed) the project.
04/18/2007
A kind visitor told me about the appearence of some screenshots related to a project called Modulipse which seems to be about Modula-2 support for the Eclipse IDE/platform/whatever. Does anyone have more information? This looks interesting...
04/16/2007
The Free Modula-2 Pages News Feed is now available. For those who have problems with using this there is an introduction (Wikipedia).
03/18/2007
A final update for the QDTools package is now available from the download area. Some bugs got fixed, some things were added like partial support for long filenames. For brave users of the command line there are some really interesting programs in there.
03/16/2007
Medcalc - a program nearly completely written in Stonybrook Modula-2 - received its certification for Windows Vista. "MedCalc is a complete statistical program for Windows designed to closely match the requirements of biomedical researchers. It is fast, user-friendly and reliable." The program is a commercial product but it is possible to download a free trial version from the homepage. The program does not only show the power of Modula-2 and of course its user but also demonstrates that a Modula-2 compiler which has been developed for an older Windows operating system is perfectly usable for projects targeted to Windows Vista.
03/07/2007
My email-provider is no longer reachable. First there was no more spam, now the server seems to be dead. The new adress to reach me is modula2 at gmx.net.
02/26/2007
Mr Rick Sutcliffe published an updated version (2.32) of the Modula-2 FAQ (01/25/2007).
02/07/2007
FileIO_4_MOD32 is an implementation of the CocoR FileIO module for Canterbury Modula 2 (MOD32 - not Java!). Jean-Pierre Dezaire recently published this module at Modula2.org. A description from the projects page: "This is the implementation part of FileIO module for Canterbury Modula 2 (MOD32), a 32 bit compiler for OS2/ECom station. The definition part can be found in CocoR package (just browse the web)."
02/03/2007
A module to work with ANSI codes in text terminals and virtual consoles is available now from linux.aliboom.com. Visit the pages of Mr. Terry Ross to get more information or browse the definition module.
01/30/2007
Please visit the new community driven section of the Free Modula-2 Pages! Get in touch.
01/26/2007
Some patches to run XDS Modula-2/Oberon-2 (XDS-x86 and XDS-C) under FreeBSD (and I guess DragonFlyBSD) were published in a thread of Excelsiors forum.
Other news: Have a look at linux.aliboom.com. Some short articles on Modula-2 related stuff are available from there.
01/09/2007
Frank Schoonjans set up a page for a Modula-2 to Free Pascal translator written by Jean-Pierre Dezaire. The package contains binaries for OS2/EComStation and Windows platforms as well as example sources. The author points out that the program is not mature but usable.
01/02/2007
The new year begins with an update at linux.aliboom.com. New example programs are available as well as updated information on programming for Linux using Modula-2. The maintainer of the site also informs about an ongoing project to translate parts of Murus from German to English to make the Modules available to more people.
12/22/2006
GNU Modula-2 now builds as a cross compiler for the AVR microprocessor. An announcement containing download-links and more information was published by Gaius Mulley in the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. EDIT: This page briefly describes how GNU Modula-2 can be used to produce ATMega8 binaries.
12/13/2006
Gaius Mulley published an interesting paper giving some details on GNU Modula-2 and the progress the project makes. The paper was presented at the GCC Developers' Summit 2006 conference and is now available from the GNU Modula-2 homepage. Very informative stuff it is.
12/05/2006
Just found a new project at SourceForge.net: xds-gtk2 is a XDS Modula-2/Oberon-2 binding of GTK+. The project was activated a month ago and I am really eager to see the first files to appear there. UPDATE: Version 1.0 was released the day after I wrote the lines above.
12/02/2006
Topic: Editing source code. A beta of Proton is available since february. Version 3.3 PR 1 now comes with an integrated file manager and english language support. I used version 3.2 for a long time with Gardens Point Modula-2 to have a simple but elegant solution (You also need to download the syntax highlighting file; Just put the file in the subdirectory /syntax).
I also uploaded SynEdit 2.4 by Matthew Inman (MKI Design) to the local download-area as it seems to disappear silently from the net. As long as one does not edit very huge files on very old computers it's a nice editor coming with Modula-2 syntax highlighting on board. By the way: A list of editors with Modula-2 syntax highlighting is available.
11/09/2006
Just a pointer. These days I printed some parts of Svend Erik Knudsens doctoral thesis "Medos-2: A Modula-2 Oriented Operating System for the Personal Computer Lilith (1983)" which is available from ETH E-Collection, an important (and in my opinion great) "electronic publication platform for scientists of the ETH Zurich". As reading this highly recommended text got more and more interesting I updated my relevant section of the local FAQ. I hope we'll have a new Modula-2 based operating system one day...
11/04/2006
A link for people who are able to understand German text: An interesting thesis comparing available Modula-2 compilers by Mr. O. Gardi is available from the ETH RAMSES homepage mentioned below. The text is a bit dated (e.g. GNU Modula-2 0.43) but nevertheless interesting.
Other news: Some people found out XDS-x86 does not like 64 bit platforms and an updated GNU Modula-2 build is available from the download-area.
10/23/2006
The rewritten home of RAMSES (Research Aids for Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Systems) is now part of the Modula-2 Webring. "RAMSES is a generic modeling and simulation environment that allows you to solve a wide range of modeling and simulation problems easily. You can model and interactively solve non-linear differential equations, difference equations, and discrete event systems in any combination; size and complexity of your model is only limited by your computer's resources." Documentation is available. You will need Stonybrook (Windows), p1 (Mac OS X) or EPC Modula-2 to use RAMSES with other operating systems than classic MacOS (For the latter there is the free MacMETH Modula-2 which you can fetch from here).
10/16/2006
Latest details on the development of GNU Modula-2 can be found here. Update (10/19/2006): gm2-harness 0.96 was released today. There is a new option to exclude libraries from the building process. "This option might be useful, in the interim, when testing the gm2 and gcc-4.1.x combination, as it fails when building the Ulm libraries. So hopefully users could install a gm2 based on 4.1.x and test it with local projects."
09/28/2006
Again, news from the GNU Modula-2 Homepage: "gm2-harness 0.93 has been released which will download, patch and build gcc, gdb, gm2 with the SET and TYPE enhancements below. It also honours the --prefix=, --with-cvs, --with-gdb and --with-gcc= options."
09/12/2006
According to the GNU-Modula-2 Homepage gm2-harness-0.9 was released some time ago. Download the package which helps in downloading and building GNU Modula-2 from there.
08/10/2006
A new binary release of MOCKA (Karlsuhe Modula-2 Compiler) is available. "This is an updated version (2006-08-07) containing the missing $SYSDIR/M2RTS-ErrNo.o file in the sys subdirectory."
07/28/2006
A new version of the multi-language compiler Strannik is available since July 5th (floating point functions added).
07/17/2006
Relinking two interesting and often updated Modula-2 sites: First one is Murus which is an interesting collection of modules and programs which is often updated. Second is Jan Verhoevens Modula-2 Page which was also updated recently. Find there different programs and modules and the friendly founder of the Mocka and Modula-2 Mailing List.
07/06/2006
An updated binary build of the GNU Modula-2 Compiler is available from the download-area.
06/26/2006
Back from my holidays in Corsica I realised gm2-harness-0.8 is out as a reaction to the release of gdb-6.5. Download the package which helps in downloading and building GNU Modula-2 here.
06/10/2006
While I'm gone fishin' (I'll be back end of the month) you may want to have a look at LRgen 6.0. This is a commercial product by Parsetec. "LRgen is a Translator Writing System for building parsers, translators and compilers for computer languages. It's based on the powerful new TBNF grammar notation, a superset of EBNF." They offer a free download-version lacking the Modula-2 grammar included in the professional product.
05/31/2006
A new version of Mocka, the "MOdula Compiler KArlsruhe" is available. Apparently it is an updated version compiled on a recent Linux-system. The former page of the compiler is still online but marked as deprecated. A big thanks for the pointer to the new version goes out to Jan Verhoeven and the Mocka and Modula-2 Mailing List.
05/21/2006
While doing the usual search for Modula-2 related sites (which is done every 2-3 months) I found Mr. Kim Moser's site which contains some older Modula-2 sources (written for the Logitech compiler) in a subdirectory now published under the GPL.
Other news: A new version of the multi-language compiler Strannik is available since April 29th (bugfix-release).
05/18/2006
You may want to check the most recent threads of the GNU Modula-2 mailing list. The compiler will be built upon GCC-4.1 soon and so takes a big step in becoming part of the GCC main tree in the more or less near future.
German speaking people may be interested in two articles by Eckart Winkler published on the authors homepage.
05/03/2006
Thomas Breeden - developer of Aglet Modula-2 for the AmigaOS platform - published the Groupwise API in Modula-2 at developer.novell.com. Here's a short description from the page: "The GWObj and Adm API for Modula-2, and some higher-level support modules to make common GW programming tasks somewhat easier as well as provide example templates. A few complete example programs included."
04/30/2006
A kind visitor and user of the FST Modula-2 installer package told me there are problems with the package under Windows 2000. I don't really know what to do as I don't use this operating system and so cannot test the packag with it. This entry to the guestbook provides a possible solution.
04/27/2006
GNU Modula-2 0.51 is available now. Here's the announcement.
04/17/2006
The combination of Modula-2 and Linux may become more interesting for beginners. Mr. T. Ross has started a project which aims to deliver the examples in "Beginning Linux Programming" translated to Modula-2. All the Modula-2 related pages of the project maintainer got a facelift by the way.
04/02/2006
In our series of bringing attention to interesting Modula-2 related resources and projects... Christian Maurer continually improves and puts work into a collection of projects known as Murus. Sources are available for Linux (Mocka) and Dos (Fitted Soft Modula-2). The package is very useful for beginners using the Linux/Modula-2 combination as there are modules providing access to important system calls and a Mocka interface to X11. Please note: Most of the pages and sources of the projects are kept in German language.
03/23/2006
Roberto Aragon put up a page with the promoting title Modula-2 is alive. The new page basically contains binaries of GNU Modula-2 for the x86_64 architecture. There are two different versions of GM2+GDB for x86_64 which are different in size. Quoted from the homepage: "As part of the build, I developed a shell script as a wrapper to GM2, which provides access for making, compilling, debugging (with ddd or gdb) and browsing man and info pages of both gdb and gm2 that can be useful for novice users." The smaller package provided requires a 'bootstrapping' before using which can also be done by using the shell script. Earlier Mr. Aragon published some information on howto use Mocka with DDD and Kate.
03/09/2006 [edited 03/11/2006]
Today I want to bring some attention to the interesting Modula-2 pages of Mr. Terry Ross. He is working on a project to produce Manpages for the libraries of XDS Modula-2 and develops an IRC-bot for the Linux-distribution he supports and co-develops (SourceMage Linux). You may view and use the GPL-licensed sources of the bot. Let me add: These sources contain a lesson in all the difficulties you have to face when using C-libraries from Modula-2. And this is also the one and only Modula-2 example interfacing and using BSD-style sockets.
Other news: A new version of the multi-language compiler Strannik is available since February 23rd. Beside of other improvements there's a new class for using Tab-Controls. The Modula-2 dialect understood by the compiler is a bit strange - nevertheless it's an interesting project.
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