djz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (10/05/85)
From: Daniel.Zigmond@SPICE.CS.CMU.EDU I talked to a man at Metacompco (California office) and was able to get confirmation of some interesting news. Here it is: MCC Pascal is being ported to the Atari ST (it is already on the Amiga) and it is supposed to be very compatible with the Amiga version. This will let developers delay the Amiga vs. ST problem until marketing so they can start programming soon (not that the choice is at all hard to make). Both MCC Pascal and Cambridge Lisp for the Amiga allow the programmer to use graphics, souns, and other Amiga features but it is very hard to do and not described in the manuals. I was promised exact directions shortly. Future versions of Pascal and Lisp will let the programmer make easy use of the Amiga's useful features by providing a big library of extra functions. This make them excellent development tools, especially the Pascal, which will probably begin competing with Lattice C. A Franz Lisp compatible front end exists for Cambridge Lisp and a future version will be Common Lisp compatible. I think this is all excellent news. I hope you find it useful. Dan