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From: Chris.Rusbridge@levels.sait.edu.au (Chris Rusbridge)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.fortran,comp.lang.modula2,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Wanted: quality UNIX compilers
Message-ID: <1821@levels.sait.edu.au>
Date: 26 Sep 89 09:53:30 GMT
Organization: Sth Australian Inst of Technology
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

We are planning to buy a moderate-sized UNIX system for student use 
for next year. We will be transferring some of the Computing Studies 
teaching to this system from our current VAX systems (running under 
VMS). Several of the subjects being considered have major language 
teaching components.

I don't have a very good feeling for the quality of UNIX compilers
(other than C). The VMS compilers are pretty good; it's a hard act to
follow! Please can I have advice from the UNIX community on quality
compilers (or ones to avoid like the plague). Email, please; I'll
summarise if there is interest in that. (It should not cost overseas 
respondents to mail to Australia; we pay for incoming mail).

The major languages we need (in rough decreasing order of importance)
are: 

	COBOL
	Pascal
	FORTRAN
	C
	Modula-2
	Ada

Chris Rusbridge

Academic Computing Service Manager, SA Institute of Technology
ACSnet:		Chris.Rusbridge@levels.sait.oz [.au]
InfoPSI:	Chris.Rusbridge@sait.edu.au	(DTE 505282622004)
Phone: 		+61 8 343 3098  Fax: +61 8 349 6939  
Post: 		The Levels, SA 5095 Australia