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Optimizing Oberon-2 Compiler

Version: 1.3.13 By: Michael Griebling E-mail: mgriebling@comp-inspirations.com Web page: Available Release Date: Available Now	Info Last Modified: 5/3/99 Requires BeOS version: R3 PPC, R4 PPC, R4 Intel License: Freeware Cost: Free Source Available?: Yes
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An optimizing Oberon-2 compiler which currently has one 
back-end producing ANSI-C source code.  Oberon-2 is a 
Pascal-like language with modern object-oriented 
facilities and name-space resolution through modules. 
Oberon-2 is much easier to learn than C++ and every bit 
as powerful and efficient.  It is a much safer programming 
language since it makes errors visible much earlier and 
promotes type-safe programming.  It also comes complete with 
garbage collection as a language feature. 
 
The compiler features complete make/build facilities, 
an EMACs major mode, and interfaces to a code management 
system (RCS). Currently only C interfaces are supported 
via a special mapping mechanism so any volunteers willing 
to provide a C-interface to the BeOS would be welcome.  
OOC's output is compatible with the Metrowerk's tools and 
the GNU GCC tools.  A precompiled version of the compiler 
for PPC/x86 BeOS is available from the above ftp sites.
The above web page has the complete compiler source code 
in both C and Oberon-2.
 
Contact the original author, Michael van Acken at 
acken@informatik.uni-kl.de for compiler related stuff; 
BeOS port questions to me.

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