[MacPerl] Open Source implementations of programming languages?

[Georg_Bauer@muensterland.org (Georg Bauer)]

In article <v04020a01b2a189c7178e@[192.168.0.77]>, pudge@pobox.com (Chris
Nandor) wrote:

>It is a POSIX environment for Mac OS.  Comes with all sorts of Unix tools.

If you accept MachTen as a commercial "basis OS", then you will have all
sorts of Open Source languages available - MachTen is a BSD-Unix based on
a Mach kernel (much like Rhapsody).  And it is possible to write standard
Mac programs with MachTen (for example using GNAT, the GNU Ada Translator,
combined with a Mac framework to produce standalone Mac programs).

Can you tell it just happened that I made myself the upgrade from
Codebuilder to MachTen as a christmas present? ;-)

BTW: an old gcc port for MPW is available somewhere on the Cygnus ftp
site. But it really is an old port and I don't know if it exists for PPC
or only for 68k. There are some other freeware languages for the Mac, for
example Clean, a pure functional language with some similarities to
Haskell. But it's not Open Source.

Open Source languages that I can add: Moscow ML is Open Source and quite
good integrated. There is an Icon version for the MPW, and Pro Icon is
freeware nowadays. MacGambit is a Open Source Scheme compiler for 68K
machines, GambitC is available as a Codewarrior plugin (and is Open
Source, too). Then there is Help, a lazy Scheme implementation for 68K
Macs (based on MacGambit).

There is a free compiler FAQ, where you can find some more. Above list is
out of my head, so there _must_ be more, I just don't remember them.

bye, Georg

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