From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me
X-Spam-Level: 
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham
	autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4
X-Google-Thread: 103376,a27bd01ed18da21f
X-Google-NewGroupId: yes
X-Google-Attributes: gida07f3367d7,domainid0,public,usenet
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII
Received: by 10.68.73.229 with SMTP id o5mr17115511pbv.7.1328710280422;
        Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:11:20 -0800 (PST)
Path: 
 wr5ni1424pbc.0!nntp.google.com!news2.google.com!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Ada compiler using a M2 compiler as back-end
Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC)
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID: <jgtvq7$oec$1@dont-email.me>
References: <abb720e9-fdc2-4a02-9318-982eec5fdf12@k6g2000vbz.googlegroups.com>
 <op.v9cgeu00ule2fv@douda-yannick>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Injection-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2012 14:11:19 +0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org;
 posting-host="4pjzwDT2MPp9AkNxUo/C4Q";
	logging-data="25036"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";
	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Wfvu4j01k1VJSohSCjRBi/tkpQL40C4E="
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (VMS/Multinet)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:CW2qN32/7ABt/uKX+oaufKrSO0I=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Date: 2012-02-08T14:11:19+00:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

On 2012-02-07, Yannick Duch�ne <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> Le Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:29:23 +0100, Gautier write-only  
><gautier_niouzes@hotmail.com> a �crit:
>
>> Hi,
>> Just saw that a Modula-2 compiler (Stony Brook) has been recently
>> released as freeware:
>>
>>   http://modula2.org/adwm2/
>>

Thanks for the pointer. I note it does appear to be Windows only.

>
> I wondered why Modula?2 instead of Modula?3. A quick search on the web  
> suggest Modula?3 was not widely adopted as an industry standard. Does that  
> mean Modula?2 is really widely adopted ?
>

It's popular enough that there's now a GNU Modula-2 compiler at:

	http://www.nongnu.org/gm2/homepage.html

It also claims on that site that the compiler is capable of acting as a
cross compiler for some AVR and ARM devices.

(I like to keep a lookout for safety conscious languages which can be
built as cross compilers under Linux and whose code can run on bare metal
in a real time environment; and yes, Ada is currently the best candidate
for that role for me, but I am always interested in other options.)

Simon.

-- 
Simon Clubley, clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Microsoft: Bringing you 1980s technology to a 21st century world