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Archive-name: computer-lang/Modula2-faq/part2 Version: 2.6 Last-modified: 1996 10 23 Posting-frequency: Monthly Monaco0000,8000,11B0 Palatino*************************************************** 0000,0000,D4004. WHERE CAN I GET SOURCE CODE, OTHER INFO? 4.1.1 Is there source or other info available on the net? A. Here are some net sites I have accessed at one time or another. I am not sure if all are still available or what is in them. ftp://ee.newcastle.edu.au/pub/modula2/ ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/ ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/m2faq.html ( Home of this FAQ) ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch/pub/ ftp://NIC.SWITCH.CH ftp://sageftp.inel.gov/ftp/pub/sage/ ftp://ftp.mathematik.uni-ulm.de/pub/soft/modula/ http://www.yahoo.com/Computers/Languages/Modula_2/ http://www.jumbo.com/prog/dos/modula2/Palatino WWW sites http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/Palatino http://www.info.apple.com/dev/devinfo/languages.html (sparse M2 compiler info) http://i44www.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/~vollmer/mocka.htmlPalatino http://www.dct.com/~johnm/M2info.htmlPalatino http://www.ualberta.ca/~pkobly/Palatino http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.htmlPalatino 4.2 What other FAQs or lists of pages are available. A. Try 0000,0000,D400 http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/Modula2.html A2. http://www.stfx.ca/people/jandrea/m2/ A3. (commercial) http://www.dct.com/~johnm/M2info.html A4.0000,0000,D400 http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/Computer.html#Modula-2 A5.0000,0000,D400 http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.html A6.0000,0000,D400 http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/Computer.html#Modula-2 4.3 Where can I find graphics libraries, etc? A1. Try the PMOS library at 0000,0000,D400<http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/PMOS/PMOS.html (Australia) or, at one of the following sites: ftp://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/code (North America) ftp://cs.ru.ac.za/pub/languages (South Africa) ftp://dutiba.twi.tudelft.nl/pub/modula2 (Western Europe) ftp://ftp.cnit.nsk.su/pub/msdos/programm.ing/modula2 (Eastern Europe). A2. there is a graphics library MultiGraph available through the MultiGraph home page at http://www.ccas.ru/~iak/mg2.htmMonaco0000,8000,11B0 Palatino It supports nearly all the Super-VGA graphics modes on VESA-compatible graphics boards, including high-color and true-color modes. You may also contact Courier Databiten AB P O Box 115 811 22 Sandviken SWEDEN phone: +46 26 256493 fax: +46 26 253641 OR Department of Applied Acoustics Chalmers University of Technology Gothenburg, SWEDEN e-mail: bid@ta.chalmers.se fax : +46 31 145154 OR Alex Iakovlev Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences 40, Vavilov Street, Moscow, GSP-1, 117967, Russia mailto:iak@ccas.ru Palatino 4.4 Are there any mathematical libraries available? A1. See Numerical Procedures in Modula-2 -- authorized translation of Numerical recipes in Pascal from PolyWare 1992 420 Ruston Rd Toronto, Ontario Canada A2. A numerical analysis package (as Modula-2 source files) is now available. Information can be found at: http://www.ee.newcastle.edu.au/users/staff/peter/m2/NumAnal.html >From this point one can download a classical (PIM) version or a standard (ISO) version. CourierThe modules in this package are: Complex arithmetic: most of the usual operations, including the recently-requested SIN and COS. Matrices: operations on matrices of any size (up to a maximum size limit, of course) - things like addition, multiplication, inverse, solving linear equations, eigenvalues. Polynomials: including root-finding. Fast Fourier Transform. Solving ordinary differential equations. Palatino 4.5 Where can I get a Modula-2 to C converter? A: The program mtc is available by anonymous ftp from file://ftp.psg.com/pub/modula-2/grosch/mtc.tar.Z file://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/programming/cocktail/mtc.tar.Z file://rs1.rrz.uni-koeln.de/usenet/comp.archives/languages/modula-2/mtc An already ported version for DOS+DJGPP can be found at at file://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/programming/compilerbau/dos/mtc/ Apparently there is an already ported Linux version too. I could not find the correct file reference myself, but try looking at a Linux mirror site such as sunsite.unc.edu. Several of the compilers available work by producing C code and can also serve this purpose. See p1 and XDS listings. 4.6 Where can I get a Modula-2 to Modula-3 converter? A. m2tom3 is available under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License from ftp://ftp-i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/pub/Modula-3-Contrib/m2tom3/Palatino Courier m2tom3 is a system to port Modula-2 programs to Modula-3. It consists of two parts: - A conversion program which tries to create a Modula-3 source text with the same semantics as the Modula-2 input while retaining the original look and feel as good as possible. - A base library which tries to emulate the Modula-2 standard library using the Modula-3 standard library. contact: Peter Klein office: Ahornstrasse 55, 52074 Aachen, Germany e-mail: pk@i3.informatik.rwth-aachen.de. Tel.: +49/241/80-21316 Fax.: +49/241/8888-218Palatino 4.7 Are there any Modula-2 applications around? A. The Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL) develops and maintains a now ~350,000 line public domain MODULA-2 reusable component library called SAGE. For more information on SAGE send E-Mail to hotline@sage.inel.gov and see the FTP server at ftp://sageftp.inel.gov/ftp/pub/sage/ 4.8 Is there a Modula-2 version available for parallel processing? A. IPD Modula-2* team has released version 9401 of the new Modula-2* programming environment for several architectures. You can get the IPD Modula-2* distributions for all supported architectures by anonymous ftp from ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de/pub/programming/modula2star/ Please do not forget to use binary mode when retrieving any of them! Register your copy with the registration secretary: ipdm2s@ira.uka.de For further information and bug reports please contact the IPD Modula-2* team at msc@ira.uka.de 4.9 Are there any compiler construction tools available? A1. Some old ones appear in ftp://ftp.gmd.de/GMD/cocktail/ AA2. Coco/R generates recursive descent parsers and their associated scanners from attribute grammars. Full source code, and a variety of simple example applications are supplied in the distribution kits. The Modula versions (1.39 is the latest) are available from ftp://ftp.inf.ethz.ch:/pub/software/CocoPalatino ftp://ftp.psg.com:/pub/modula-2/cocoPalatino ftp://cs.ru.ac.za:/pub/cocoPalatino ftp://ftp.fit.qut.edu.au:/pub/cocoPalatino There are versions for the MS-DOS compilers (JPI, FST, Logitech, StonyBrook, Gardens Point), for the Mocka compiler for Linux and FreeBSD, as well as for the Gardens Point Unix compilers, including Linux and FreeBSD. There is also a version that produces TurboPascal units very similar to the Modula modules. A port for the P1 compiler on the Mac should be available soon. A port by Rolf Schrader for TDI Atari Modula-2 is now available from ftp://cs.ru.ac.za:/pub/coco/ATARI136.EXEPalatino in the form of an MS-DOS self-extracting file. This may also be unpacked by using the LHA decompressor on other systems. A2. A copy of the EBNF for ISO Modula-2 can be found in http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/math/rsbook/Appendices/Ap3.nisus.htmlPalatino 4.10 Does anyone know of a lexical analysis tool that is written in Modula-2 and for Modula-2 code? A.You want rex, part of Cocktail (also ll and lalr parser generators, abstract syntax trees, attribute grammar evaluators, tree Free version: ftp://ftp.ira.uka.de:/pub/programming/cocktail/Palatino ftp://ftp.uni-stuttgart.de/pub/unix/programming/compilerbau/ (includes a dos version using DJGPP) Courier Commercial version and support: Dr.-Ing. Josef Grosch Tel. : 0721-697061 CoCoLab Fax : 0721-661966 Hagsfelder Allee 16 EMail : grosch@cocolab.sub.com D-76131 Karlsruhe Palatino 4.11 What can you tell me about debuggers? A. For gnu, try http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/htbin/info/info/gdb.info,Modula-2 4.12 Is there an applications framework for Windows programming? A. Try looking at ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/sjr/m2afx.zipPalatino or0000,0000,D400ftp://ftp.leo.org/pub/comp/platforms/pc/windows/programming/modula/m2afx.zip This software is an application framework that implements a number of classes that encapsulate the weirdness of the Windows C API and attempts to present it in a cleaner way to the Modula-2 programmer. 4.13 Does there exist something to convert a C header file to a Modula-2 DEFINITION MODULE file for me? A. Try looking at the 0000,0000,D400xTech Ltd site for the H2D freeware product on some platforms Monaco0000,8000,11B0<Palatino 4.14 Is there any Benchmark code out there? A. Try looking at the 0000,0000,D400xTech Ltd site for their benchmark suite.Monaco0000,8000,11B0 ftp://ftp.iis.nsk.su/pub/xds/bench.zipPalatino Monaco0000,8000,11B0 ftp://ftp.dct.com/pub/pmi/bench.zipPalatino Monaco0000,8000,11B0 Palatino4.15 Can you help me with my assignments? PalatinoA. Some people may give you hints, but please do not subvert your professor and your education by submitting work other people do for you. *************************************************** 0000,0000,D4005. SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ON CODE AND ALGORITHMS 5.1 Where can I get an algorithm for an efficient random number generator? A1. Pierre L'Ecuyer: Efficient and Portable Combined Random Number Generators, Communications of the ACM, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 742-749. The RNG has a period of approximately 2.3E+18. Generating 1 000 000 numbers per second, that means that it would take over 73 000 years before it repeated a sequence. A2.Have a look at http://www.pitt.edu/~jesst63/modula2.htmlPalatino *************************************************** 0000,0000,D4006. WHAT ARE SOME REFERENCE MATERIALS ON MODULA-2? A1. A shareware text I have written is available as html in http://www.twu.ca/faculty/fnas/math/rsbook/Welcome.htmlPalatino mirrors: http://eiunix.tuwien.ac.at/Modula-2/rsbook/ and as postscript in ftp://FTP.twu.ca/pub/modula2/Modula-2Text/Chapters.ps/ A2. A tutorial is available at the Jumbo site in http://www.jumbo.com/prog/dos/modula2Palatino A3.The manuals for some of the commercial products such as TopSpeed contain much useful information. A4. The Gardens Point sites have documentation available (see their listing above.) A5. A document called Modula-2 for Pascal programmers (Postscript,10 pages) may be fetched by anonymous ftp at ftp://ee.newcastle.edu.au/pub/modula2/Modula2.ps.Z The author has not updated the contents for a couple of years, so there may be minor inaccuracies in terms of the current language standard. A6. A variety of ETH papers are stored at ftp.ftp.ethz.ch in /doc/diss, /doc/tech-reports and /pub/oberon/docu A7. What follows is a BIBLIOGRAPHY of some published materials in a table delimited by two spaces between fields: Author Title City Publisher Year Subject Adams, J. Mack Gabrini, Philippe J & Kurtz, Barry L. An Introduction to Computer Science with Modula-2 Lexington, MA D.C. Heath & Co 1988 Backhurst, Nigel G. Mastering Modula 2 Wilmslow Sigma 1988 Beidler, John & Jackowitz, Paul Modula-2 Boston Prindle Weber & Schmidt 1985 Blaschek, G. & Pomberger, G. Introduction To Programming With Modula-2 Springer-Verlag 1990 Budgen, David Software Development with Modula-2 Reading, MA Addison-Wesley 1989 Carmony, Lowell A. & Holliday, Robert L. A First Course In Modula-2 New York Computer Science Press c1990 Carroll, D. W. Advanced Modula-2 Programming for the IBM PC XT and AT Elsevier 1986 Chirlian, Paul M. Introduction to Modula-2 Beaverton, Or. Matrix Publishers Christian, Kaare A guide to Modula-2 New York Springer-Verlag 1986 Cooling, J.E. Modula-2 for Microcomputer Systems Van Nostrand Reinhold 1988 Cooper, Doug Oh My! Modula-2! New York Norton 1990 Cornelius, Barry Programming with TopSpeed Modula-2 Reading, MA Addison Wesley 1991 Eisenbach, Susan & Sadler, Cristopher Program Design with Modula-2 Reading, MA Addison-Wesley 1989 Elder, Jim Compiler Construction: A Recursive Descent model Hemel Hempstead England: Prentice-Hall 1994 Etling, Don Modula-2 Programmer's Resource Book Blue Ridge Summit, PA Tab Books 1988 Feldman, Michael B. Data Structures with Modula-2 Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall 1988 Ford, Gary & Wiener, Richard. Modula-2: A Software Development Approach New York Wiley 1985 Gabrini, Philippe J. & Kurtz, Barry L. Data Structures And Algorithms With Modula-2 Lexington, MA DC Heath c1992 Gleaves, Richard Modula-2 for Pascal Programmers New York Springer-Verlag 1984 Gough, K. John & Mohay, George M. Modula-2: A Second Course In Programming Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall 1988 Greenfield, Stuart B. Invitation to Modula-2 Petrocelli Books 1985 Harrison, Rachael Abstract Data Types in Modula-2 New York Wiley 1989 Wiley Harter, Edward D. Modula-2 Programming. A First Course Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1990 Helman, Paul & Veroff, Robert Walls and Mirrors: Intermediate Problem Solving and Data. Modula-2 Menlo Park, CA Benjamin Cummings 1988 Hewitt, Jill A. & Frak, Raymond J. Software Engineering in Modula-2: an object-oriented approach London Macmillan 1989. Hille, R.F. Data Abstraction and Program Development Using Modula-2 Sydney Prentice Hall 1989 Hopper, Keith. The Magic of Modula-2 Melbourne Prentice Hall 1991 Johnston, Chris Applying Modula-2 Academic Press 1991 Jones, William C. Jr. Data Structures Using Modula-2 New York Wiley 1988 Jones, William C. Jr. Modula-2 Problem Solving and Programming with Style New York Harper & Row 1987 Joyce, Edward J. Modula-2: A Seafarer's Manual & Shipyard Guide Reading, MA Addison-Wesley 1985 Kaplan, Ian & Miller, Mike Modula-2 Programming Rochelle Park, NJ Hayden Book Co. 1986 Kelly-Bootle, Stan Modula-2 Primer Howard W. Sams & Co. 1987 King, K.N. Modula-2: A Complete Guide Lexington, MA D.C. Heath & Co 1988 Knepley, Ed & Platt, Robert Modula-2 Programming Reston, VA Reston Pub. Co. 1985 Koffman, Elliot B. Problem Solving and Structured Programming in Modula-2 Reading, MA Addison-Wesley 1988 Kruse, Robert L. Programming With Data Structures Modula-2 Version Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1988 Lawrence, Mike Modula-2 And The Amiga Avant-Garde Software 1990? Leestma, Sanford & Nyhoff, Larry Programming & Problem-Solving in Modula-2 New York Macmillan 1989 Lins, C. (Charles) The Modula-2 Software Component Library Volumes I-IV New York Springer-Verlag 1989- Mayer, Herbert G. Programming in Modula-2. the Art & the Craft New York Macmillan 1988 McCracken, Daniel D. & W. Salmon A Second Course in Computer Science with Modula-2 New York Wiley 1987 Messer, P. A. & I. Marshall Modula-2 Constructive Program Development Oxford Blackwell Scientific Publications 1986 Metrowerks, Inc. Staff Metrowerks Modula-2 Start Pak New York Macmillan 1990 Mitchell, R. J. Modula-2 Applied London Macmillan 1991 Mitchell, Richard Abstract Data Types And Modula-2 A Worked Example Of Design Using Data Abstraction Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall 1992 Moore, John B. & McKay, Kenneth N. Modula-2 Text and Reference Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1987 Novak, M.M. Modula-2 in Science & Engineering London McGraw 1990 Nyhoff, Larry & Leestma ,Sanford Data Structures & Advanced Programming in Modula-2 New York Macmillan 1990 Ogilvie, John W. L. Modula-2 Programming New York McGraw-Hill 1985 Pinson, Lewis Sincovec, Richard & Weiner, Richard A First Course in Computer Science with Modula-2 New York Wiley 1987 Pittman, Thomas & Peters, James The Art Of Compiler Design Theory And Practice Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1992 Pomberger, Gustav. Software Engineering and Modula-2 Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall 1984 Rechenberg, P. & Mvssenbvck, H. (tr. O'Meara, John) A Compiler Generator for Microcomputers Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall / Carl Hanser Verlag 1989 Riley, David D. Data Abstraction and Structures: An Introduction To Computer Science II Boston Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co. 1987 Riley, David D. Using Modula-2: An Introduction To Computer Science I Boston Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co. 1987 Sale, Arthur H. J. Modula-2: Discipline & Design Sydney Addison-Wesley 1986 Sawyer, Brian & Foster, Dennis. Programming Expert Systems in Modula-2 New York Wiley 1986 Schildt, Herbert Advanced Modula-2 Berkeley, CA Osborne McGraw-Hill 1987 Schildt, Herbert Modula-2 Made Easy Berkeley, CA Osborne McGraw-Hill 1986 Schiper, Andre; (tr. Howlett, Jack) Concurrent programming: Illustrated With Examples in Portal, Ada, and Modula-2 Halsted Press 1989 Schnapp, Russell L. Macintosh Graphics in Modula-2 Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1986 Sincovec, Richard F. & Richard S. Wiener. Data Structures Using Modula-2 New York Wiley 1986 Sincovec, Richard F. & Wiener, Richard S. Modula-2 Software Components New York Wiley 1987 Stubbs, Daniel F. & Webre, Neil W. Data Structures With Abstract Data Types and Modula-2 Monterey, CA Brooks/Cole Pub. Co. 1987 Sutcliffe, Richard J. Introduction to Programming Using Modula-2 Columbus, OH Merrill 1987 Sutherland, Robert J. The Professional Programmer's Guide to Modula-2 London Pitman 1988 Terry, Patrick D. An Introduction To Programming with Modula-2 Reading, MA Addison-Wesley 1987 Thalmann, Daniel Modula-2: An Introduction New York Springer-Verlag 1985 Tremblay, Jean-Paul DeDourek, John M. & Daoust, David A. Programming in Modula-2 New York McGraw-Hill 1989 Tucker, Allen B. Jr. Computer science: A Second Course Using Modula-2 New York McGraw-Hill 1988 Ullmann, Jeffrey Compiling in Modula-2 - A First Introduction To Classical Recursive Descent Compiling Hemel Hempstead England: Prentice-Hall 1994 Ural, Saim & Ural, Suzan Introduction to Programming with Modula-2 New York Harper & Row 1987 Walker, Billy K Modula-2 Programming With Data Structures Belmont, CA Wadsworth Pub. Co. 1986 Walker, Robert D. Modula-2 Library Modules: A Programmer's Reference Blue Ridge Summit, PA Tab Books 1988 Ward, Terry A. Advanced Programming Techniques in Modula-2 Glenview, IL Scott Foresman 1987 Welsh, Jim & Elder, John Introduction to Modula-2 Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1987 Wiatrowski, Claude A. & Wiener, Richard S. From C to Modula-2--and Back - Bridging The Language Gap New York Wiley Wiener, Richard Modula-2 Wizard's Programming Reference New York Wiley 1986 Wiener, Richard & Ford, G. Modula-2 A Software Development Approach New York Wiley 1985 Wiener, Richard & Sincovec, R. F. Software Engineering with Modula-2 and Ada New York Wiley 1984 Willis, Claire & Paddon, Derek Abstraction And Specification With Modula-2 London Pitman 1992 Wirth, Niklaus Programming in Modula-2 (3rd corrected ed.) New York Springer-Verlag 1985 Wirth, Niklaus Algorithms and Data Structures (1986 edition) Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice-Hall 1986 Wirth, Niklaus Programming in Modula-2 (4th ed.) New York Springer-Verlag 1990 Woodman, Mark et al Portable Modula-2 Programming Maidenhead, Berkshire UK McGraw-Hill 1989 0000,0000,D4007. REVIEWS OF MODULA-2 PRODUCTS. Note: The reviews have been contributed by others and I take no responsibility for their accuracy or for any opinions expressed therein. I have updated some of the facts. p1 Modula-2 v5.2 for Macintosh, by Marc Martin, Dec 1994.This is an excellent Modula-2 compiler, implemented as an MPW Tool. Highlights include ISO language extensions & library, a full set of Macintosh toolbox definitions, language extensions to simplify toolbox programming, object-oriented extensions and support for MacApp, greater than 32k code and globals, code generation comparable to Apple's official compilers, several FPU code options, multi-window debugger, linkable with other MPW languages, detailed documentation, and superb technical support via e-mail. Downsides include high cost (US$400), dependency on MPW, lack of SADE support, and no native PowerPC version. Version 5.3 is in alpha testing, and adds ANSI C output for creating PowerPC programs under MPW or CodeWarrier. (Now at 5.4 and still no native PC back end -RS) GPM, MOD32, TopSpeed and XDS are reviewed at http://www.eng.newcastle.edu.au/ee/Moylan/os2/os2m2.html 0000,0000,D400Appendix: AUTHOR INFORMATION AND DISCLAIMERS Personal: I have used, written about, and taught Modula-2 (since 1983) and have maintained some of the information in this list for over six years. I have used at least a dozen different compiler/environments in that time on five different platforms, and have written numerous articles and reviews for publication. I have been a member of the ISO committee WG13 (Modula-2 standardization) since its inception and have participated in all the debates and meetings of WG13 except for meeting #9 at Lake Wanaka. I have written a text on Modula-2 (now shareware), made numerous submissions to WG13 and directed an experimental implementation of the ISO I/O library in order to verify its concepts. I am the author and project editor of Standard Generic Modula-2. Disclaimers: (i) I take no responsibility for anyone's use or misuse of this information. (ii) Apart from having been a beta tester, textbook writer, programmer and a long time user of Modula-2, I have no financial connection with any manufacturer or distributor of software. I am the author of some Modula-2 materials (some of which are shareware) as noted herein. (iii) In producing this material, I am NOT acting in an official capacity for TWU, WG13, comp.lang.modula2, or any other organization. (iv) Mention of a book or product is NOT an endorsement unless specifically noted. (v) Inclusion of materials on this list is based on relevance to Modula-2 and factual content and is otherwise entirely without prejudice. I edit all submissions for brevity, clarity, and usage. To remain authoritative, this and all versions of this FAQ are copyright 1991-1996 by Rick Sutcliffe. This document may be copied and distributed provided it is not altered and no fee is charged with the exception of normal downloading costs. Compiled by: CourierRick Sutcliffe (aka The Northern Spy in the old days) Trinity Western University 7600 Glover Rd., Langley, B.C. Canada V2Y 1Y1 (604) 888-7511 Fax 888-1225 mailto:rsutc@twu.ca Rick Sutcliffe Math/Cmpt Trinity Western University < CDN Chair WG13, FAQ maintainer comp.lang.modula-2 < <