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[Abi Lover]

Hi

Thanks everyone for replying to my questions on co-routines in Modula-2. I 
was a bit disappointed though that C/C++ does not have the same simple, 
clean, and elegant solution to this interesting problem as does M2. I should 
have thought that somebody would have thought of adding it to C/C++ as an 
extension at least by now.

As an aside, does anyone know what happened to the source code for the old 
TopSpeed Modula-2 compiler? The name of the company which originally 
produced it, if I remember correctly, was Jensen & Partner International. 
That was a very well-written and good quality piece of software. It was 
written in M2, and it had its own simple text editor, linker, and debugger, 
and a nice library of definition modules, and it produced fast and efficient 
executable code. But for some reason it never caught on, and C/C++ became 
the de-facto programming language, and that bit of software, as well as the 
company which produced it, died. It would be great if that source code could 
be resurrected somehow, released under GPL so that it could be developed by 
the open source community, and ported to Linux. That source code is probably 
not much use to whoever owns it by now, and it shouldn't be too difficult to 
raise a bit of money to buy it and release it under GPL.

Best regards




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