>I was asked to work on some old (very late eighties) Modula 2 programs last year...
>That was a clean language, quite performant and 32-bit capable with DOS-extenders
>and in OS/2. And already multitasking in DOS as part of the language.
>
>Much easier to to grok again than C code of that area...
>
>Modula-2 never quite caught on the United States the way it did in Europe. I remember that Stoney Book and Jensen (I think it was JP-something) had some great compilers in the late 80's and early 90's, but they never achieved the same popularity over here. (Too bad, because I liked them).

Again, similarities in surprising areas <g>. I still have a couple of 5'25 floppies from JPI (Jensen & Partner Isomething, which was the fast "1.5" pass compiler on 2 or 3 floppies and the later total topspeed compiler package which was definitely 2 pass for DOS, Extended DOS with Pharlap, OS/2 and windows and somewhere about 25 big floppies and lots of manuals for C, C++ and Modula with nearly identical content <g>. The Stony Brook I remember from the name only, but I think never used it. Before that I worked with Logitech M2 (and it took years before I even LOOKED at their hardware after that experience, now I am addicted to their old mice form...)

We created a small SQL interpreter for dBase3 files based on the parsing engine from a free pascal compiler with that as well as background data processing software for DOS - man was that FUN.

regards

thomas