Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 14:00:22 -0800 From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: New port of Modula-3 on freefall Message-ID: <199602032200.OAA03405@austin.polstra.com>
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I have put a new port of DEC SRC's Modula-3 language system in:
ftp://freefall.cdrom.com/pub/incoming/modula-3.tar.gz
and also a description in "modula-3.tar.gz.README". I'd appreciate it
if somebody would look it over, and put it into the ports collection.
Here's what it is (from the DESCR file):
This is a port of Modula-3 release 3.5.3, from DEC Systems Research
Center. Modula-3 is a modern compiled programming language designed
for systems programming as well as large applications. Some notable
features include:
* A clean type system with good support for object-oriented
programming.
* A powerful module system.
* Lightweight threads, fully integrated into the language and all of
the libraries.
* Generics.
* Exceptions.
* Automatic storage management by a multithreaded, incremental,
generational garbage collector.
* Guaranteed type safety, plus the ability to confine unsafe code
behind safe interfaces.
* Elegance and simplicity, even compared with less powerful
languages such as C++ and Ada.
* Ease of integration with existing C libraries.
* A huge collection of runtime libraries, providing:
- Text manipulation.
- Generic containers (lists, sequences, tables, etc.).
- Atoms and symbolic expressions.
- An extensible stream I/O system.
- Persistent objects.
- Operating system interfaces.
- Networking.
- Very nice object-oriented graphics facilities, and some
convenient tools for building GUIs.
* A convenient browser.
A wealth of information about Modula-3 can be found at:
http://www.research.digital.com/SRC/modula-3/html/home.html
This port includes patches for a number of bugs found since the release
of DEC SRC's version 3.5.3.
Let me know if you have any questions or comments.
--
John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-knowledge is always bad news." -- John Barth
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