MPW-related links and add-on products

Here are various MPW-related links that I found through a quick search of the Web:

Apple’s MPW ToolZone—the source for the latest versions of MPW.

A-line, tools and scripts for simplifying complex projects, from Metamage Software Creations.

DirectTeX—a shareware TEX implementation that runs under MPW.

Fortran 77 and Pro Fortran from Absoft.

Fortran from Fortner Research. (Is this still available?)

An optimizing preprocessor for Fortran code, from Kuck & Associates.

Free ports of well-known UNIX programs from Gilles Depeyrot and others, including Bison, DiffUtils, Flex, GZip, M4, Patch, Perl and Sed.

How to Impress Macintosh Programmers, by Guy Kawasaki, includes some remarks about the relative speeds of MPW and CodeWarrior which seem a bit ironic nowadays.

The MacOS port of HTML Tidy includes an MPW tool version.

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MacJikes is a shareware port of IBM’s Jikes project, which appears to include an MPW version.

Matthias Neeracher has released source code to a number of his programming projects, including library code.

My own software page includes various MPW tools.

NQC is a C-like language for programming the Lego Mindstorms controller. One of the Mac versions takes the form of an MPW tool.

Oberon.

p1 Modula-2 is a commercial MPW-based compiler with a free demo version.

Perl: the MacPerl port by Matthias Neeracher comes as both an application and an MPW tool.

IEEE Software published a paper on MPW in its May/June 1988 issue, an abstract of which is here.

Source code control: INTERSOLV PVCS.

STLport is a freeware implementation of the C++ Standard Template Library for a whole range of platforms and compilers, including both MrCpp and SCpp under MPW.

Thomas’ Utility Disk includes various MPW tools.

Documentation on XCOFF from IBM.

Created by LDO 1997 August 8, last updated 2002 April 20.

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