[M3devel] Think we need a new release.

[Daniel Alejandro Benavides D.]

Hi all:

In case, you want the reference, and plus [1]:

At the time it was a kind of important to investigate [1] (for instance the ARX operating system it was a real issue for the day to day development) about Acorn in the 80's:
http://www.legacy.com/guestbook/mercurynews/guestbook.aspx?n=steve-glassman&pid=144489261&page=3

I guess in the case of a Microkernel and a huge UI libraries it might matter (Interfaces of 250k loc would would be good test case in terms of Modular verification it might matter, if the upper limit is O(n^5) actually to make that calculation makes an unknown prefix for that number power of ten, 26th order).

In the other hand you might want to leave like that but being one of the most important features to be able to program in the large, I feel this is better that the pain to wait that kind of operations (usually ESC ten times slower than compilation time).

[1] U. Postavsky, “Distributed Compilation Using Distributed Shared Memory,” M.Sc., University of Toronto (Canada), Canada, 1990.


--- El vie, 10/2/12, Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es> escribió:

> De: Daniel Alejandro Benavides D. <dabenavidesd at yahoo.es>
> Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Think we need a new release.
> Para: "m3devel" <m3devel at elegosoft.com>, m3 at sol42.com
> Fecha: viernes, 10 de febrero, 2012 18:30
> Hi all:
> Modula-2+ distributed compiler didn't require languages
> changes but extensive testing and some distributed setting,
> which is why you need some sort of engineering process, at
> least is what I think that happens.
> If you don't want dynamic compilation/interpretation that's
> up to one's needs, but currently most compilers do have some
> sort of dynamic interpretation capabilities, and being
> Modula-3 and innovative platform, it must have one. That's
> again what I think. I guess the way of not interrupting is
> just is m3-obliq stuff (since it's the scripting expression
> of Modula-3 RT) and prepare for the needed changes in the
> next big release. So for me would be like v 5.10 < 6.0
> Thanks in advance
> 
> --- El vie, 10/2/12, m3 at sol42.com <m3 at sol42.com>
> escribió:
> 
> > De: m3 at sol42.com <m3 at sol42.com>
> > Asunto: Re: [M3devel] Think we need a new release.
> > Para: "m3devel" <m3devel at elegosoft.com>
> > Fecha: viernes, 10 de febrero, 2012 16:50
> > On 10 Feb 2012, at 15:14, Vintage
> > Coder wrote:
> > > What is the purpose of a new release? A compiler
> and
> > runtime that work presumably only need fixes.
> > 
> > Agreed.  I can think of two reasons: adding "must
> have"
> > stuff to the standard library, and fixing bugs or
> improving
> > library, compiler, or runtime.  Note that "must
> have"
> > should probably be evaluated in the context of systems
> > programming, which is what Modula-3 is for.
> > 
> > Even adding new platforms should not require bumping
> the
> > version number if it is the existing infrastructure
> that is
> > being ported.
> > 
> > There are loads of "greatest next thing" languages out
> there
> > that you have to re-learn every few releases. 
> Modula-3
> > is thankfully not one of them.  Want new stuff in
> the
> > language?  Then you want Modula-3+ or Modula-4.
> > 
> > Regards.
> > -Daniel
> > 
> > 
> >
>