Re: Comint II Modula-2?

["Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Ron Kneusel wrote:
> BluPhoenyx wrote:
>
> > I thought the name sounded familiar. Let us know how it goes.
>
>
> Well, others have already found some good info about it.  I got "Hello
> world" to compile and run (remembering that Modula-2 is case sensitive
> helps :)

I *like* case-sensitivity.  My eyes are also case-sensitive.  ;-)

> This might be worth playing around with a bit but the system itself is
> not really what I'd call "user friendly".  I can see why it never
> caught on.  A four pass compiler that takes over a minute to compile
> just about the smallest program possible didn't help its popularity,
> either!

How much time is I/O time and how much is processor time?

Put another way, how would it run from a hard disk and/or with an
accelerator?

A small program is often the worst case for a multipass compiler,
since it has to load all the passes, and each has very little to do.

> The source code for the InOut module is included which offers clues to
> some of the other modules.
>
> I wonder if this system uses a p-code interpreter like Apple Pascal and
> Apple Fortran did?

Apparently so.

-michael

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