Re: Libraries - ISAM

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Date	2021-02-02 08:06 -0800
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Subject	Re: Libraries - ISAM
From	"oligun...@gmail.com" <oligunnlaugs@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, 2 February 2021 at 12:03:03 UTC, Martin Brown wrote:

> While we are at it does anyone know if the (expensive) Springer series 
> of 4 volumes "The Modula-2 Software Component Library: Volume N" by 
> Charles Lins has anything to recommend it at all? 
> 
> The lack of any description of the contents beyond "invaluable" and no 
> preview of the contents page or index makes me very suspicious. 
> 
> https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_book_1?field-author=Charles+Lins 
> 
> I haven't heard of him and none of them have any reviews... 
> 
> -- 
> Regards, 
> Martin Brown

Yes, superb set of books but very outdated and Mac oriented, the author Charles Lins is now known as Cheryl Lins and runs the Delaware Phoenix distillery in New York state, USA.

http://www.cheryllins.com/

Lins headed the Modula-2 an Oberon dev effort inside Apple Corp. for years, the books represent the only thing that was published outside of Apple, the in house developed M2 and Oberon-2 compilers were never released for outside use. But Lins did publish a small number of papers in addition to the books, for example see: 
https://dlnext.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/382076.382642

The libraries never gained any traction because of the very restrictive licencing requirements Apple placed on them 

Some of the libraries in the books are contained in Gunter Müller's collection of Modula-2 libraries on github, but be aware that they are Apple IP, and that the egregious licencing restrictions still apply.
https://github.com/GunterMueller/Modula-2_Libraries

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