Re: Portability Considerations

[Alice Osako]

Christoph Schlegel:

> Alice,
>
> the academic, the perfect technical, the purist view and so on always
> let us feel unsure because of all the good arguments against keeping to
> do, what we are doing. Meanwhile very often I said to myself at a
> certain point: I'll stop the discussion to invest the time for my
> project. As long as I have fun and know why I am doing... Some but not
> all are coding for the perfect world.
>
> There's a working compiler with great support, a language worth a go -
>
> Keep up your interesting work.
>     
    
    Thank you. I have to admit that I tend towards the perfectionist
    position myself usually, but in this case I have been a bit
    frustrated as this project is itself a bit of a distraction from the
    project I meant to work on, and the fact that some of these problems
    relate to the compiler itself - which is in no way meant as a
    criticism of Gaius' impressive work on gm2 - has left me stymied.
    
    Speaking of which, I've tried building gm2 to the bleeding edge to
    see if I can get it to compile with that, which Gaius Mulley seems
    to have managed. Unfortunately, the compiler build itself has thrown
    an internal error. I'll post the error message in a separate post.
    
    I will continue working on this, certainly. But I am focused mainly
    on getting this to work on gm2 first and foremost - if for no other
    reason that I don't have access to any other Modula-2 compilers at
    this time.