ed@zinfandel.UUCP (08/23/83)
#N:zinfandel:16600002:000:382 zinfandel!ed Aug 22 14:10:00 1983 Here is one of those "questions for a friend". He needs to make a decision about which Pascal to use for a development project. His choices seem to be the IBM Pascal or Pascal MT/+. Is anyone willing to share their experiences with either or offer suggestions as to a reasonable Pascal? I will summarize any personal replies if they come in. Ed Hirgelt decvax!sytek!zehntel!ed
jph@whuxlb.UUCP (08/29/83)
#R:zinfandel:16600002:whuxlb:6400013:000:561 whuxlb!jph Aug 27 09:32:00 1983 I have been using the IBM PASCAL and have found it to be very good. The extensions that it has allows pointers to be the full 20-bit addresses so that you can access anything in menory. The code generated (if you turn off the run-time checks) is very good. But even with the run-time checks left on, it runs fast. Reasonable interfaces are provided to I/O, with random access to the disk. It have separate compilations and INTERFACEs and UNITs to help define separate modules. Assembly language routines can be easily written and interfaced with the language.