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Sub Ramakrishnan writes:
>I am curious as to what this compiler is for?
>Is it a simula compiler? If so is it a full
>blown version comparable to commercial simula
>from lund inc..? Hope someone would elaborate it.
>Thank You

As I understand it, cim is meant not to be a
high-end simula system, but to make Simula
available on as many systems as possible. This is
done by converting the Simula code to (unreadable) C
code which can be compiled on many, many systems.
Because C is a bit system dependent, for each system
a different cim "compiler" is available.
The resulting executable runs of course slower than
would be possible with a true compiler. In addition,
the cim packages suffer from rather serious bugs mostly
related to nesting (at least does the sun4 system).
The cim-team is very cooperative to fix the bugs, so
everyone is encoraged to use cim and to bring it at
a higher level.

Peter

ps. Note that cim (currently) doesn't provide a debugger.