[M3devel] Hello m3devel.

[Rodney M. Bates]

Highjinks at gmx.com wrote:
> Just dropping in to say "Hi" and let you guys know what I'm up to.
> 
> Since I'm new to the list, and Modula 3, I wont clog up the list with 
> novice questions. However, I do have fifteen years experience developing 
> in Assembler, C, Ada, and Forth. I'm picking up Modula3, IMO, about an 
> order of magnitude faster than I picked up Ada.

As an old Ada refugee, I am glad to hear from someone making the same
transition, and glad to hear your estimate of learning time ratio.
It is the same as the ratio of language definition page counts!

> 
> My current platform is the AMD64_LINUX setup. And from the looks of it 
> the development team here has been struggling a bit with 32bit/64bit 
> issues. Is my observation correct? If so, what could I, an M3 newbie, do 
> to assist?
> 
> I'm checking out the CM3 sources, anonymously, from the repository right 
> now.
> 
> If there is anything I can do, just let me know.
> -- 
> Chris <Highjinks at gmx.com>
>