Modula

[Robb Bates]

I found this comparison of CP/M compilers and it looks like the various Modula compilers perform surprisingly well, even compared to C.  But I don't see any of them in the RomWBW images.

https://github.com/davidly/cpm_compilers

I'm going to try to find one and play around with it.

Does anyone have any experience with any of them, or Modula in general?  There's a Borland Turbo Modula that has the same IDE as their Turbo Pascal.  That might be a good choice to include as an image for RomWBW.

Thoughts?

Robb

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 16:29 Robb Bates, <robb...@gmail.com> wrote:

I found this comparison of CP/M compilers and it looks like the various Modula compilers perform surprisingly well, even compared to C.  But I don't see any of them in the RomWBW images.

Many of these have existing rights holders who have not given permission for their code to be redistributed. Someone stuffed a copy on GitHub doesn't magically make it free.

Borland's successor's made some bits available but Modula was not one of them. In fact a copy of Borland Modula 2 for CP/M is incredibly rare as the product was released then almost immediately pulled without explanation and never saw the light of day again.

Alan

[Robb Bates]

Ah, good point.  That doesn't really come to mind often, as many CP/M programs are just assumed to be abandonware.  But gotta play by the rules here I suppose.

[Tadeusz Pycio]

Turbo Modula 2 has a bug in the ANSI driver and a fix should be used to make the IDE usable. The same bug occurs in the library.

[Richard Deane]

Have a look in my app archive on GitHub riwide. FTL Modula 2 is the best. I wrote a hack of their mini nulu to give me a nulu (I called it Lima for library manager) to work on Cromemco CDOs. The example is there as well as the compiler.

Richard

On Sat, 2 Aug 2025, 17:19 Tadeusz Pycio, <ta...@wp.pl> wrote:

Turbo Modula 2 has a bug in the ANSI driver and a fix should be used to make the IDE usable. The same bug occurs in the library.

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