[M3devel] Classic Modula-3 Books

[Martin Bishop]

Ah, and from the email I found http://www.perlnelson.org/ which seems to
be a website for the Nelson family.  I suppose that would be a good
place to contact him.

Tony Hosking wrote:
> Last contact I had with Greg Nelson was this e-mail...
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
>> From: "Greg Nelson" <gnelson at gmail.com>
>> Date: 25 March 2006 10:43:52 GMT+11:00
>> To: hosking at cs.purdue.edu
>> Subject: Some progress
>> Reply-To: greg at perlnelson.org
>>
>>  Antony,
>>
>> Thank you for your help.  By following your advice I have successfully
>> downloaded CM3 to my Linux machine, and used it to compile and execute
>> the program that prints "Hello world".  But when I try to apply it to
>> an m3makefile that imports "ui" and compiles a program that
>> Trestle.Installs a TextVBT that displays the text "Hello Trestle", I
>> get an error message that I interpret to mean "ui package not found".
>> And I am concerned that I cannot find any evidence of the ui package
>> or of the Juno-2 packages that are my goal.  (I hope to use Juno-2 to
>> produce an educational video.)
>>
>> Is there still hope? Would you like to suggest a next step for me?
>>
>>
>> Greg Nelson
>> greg at perlnelson.org
>> 839 Richardson Ct Palo Alto, CA USA 94303
>> (650) 856 8103 (home) (650) 856 8103 (office) (650) 954 5338 (mobile)
> 
> Antony Hosking | Associate Professor | Computer Science | Purdue University
> 305 N. University Street | West Lafayette | IN 47907 | USA
> Office +1 765 494 6001 | Mobile +1 765 427 5484
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> On 15 Mar 2009, at 05:52, Martin Bishop wrote:
> 
>> Well, I looked around, but it's surprisingly hard to find Greg Nelson...
>> I believe his full name is actually Charles Greg Nelson, but it's still
>> difficult...I think he was last at HP in 2007? No idea where he works
>> now, nor where he could be contacted.
>>
>> hendrik at topoi.pooq.com wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 12:55:42PM -0500, Martin Bishop wrote:
>>>> Is there any chance that "classic" books on Modula-3 like "Modula-3" by
>>>> Harbison (I own a copy, it's a great book) or "Systems Programming With
>>>> Modula-3" by Nelson might one day be released online?
>>>>
>>>> They aren't in print anymore, and I can't imagine there is much demand
>>>> for them...I found "Modula-3" used for $1 on Amazon, but "Systems
>>>> Programming With Modula-3" is $40 at it's cheapest, used :(
>>>
>>> Is there any chance of contacting the author(s)?
>>>
>>> -- hendrik
>>>
>>>
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