KSN@PSUVMB.BITNET (Peter A. Krupa) (10/05/87)
I'm searching for good version of standard Pascal (UCSD if possible),
and a great version of C (ANSI standard) for the Atari 1040ST. If you
know of a company either can be purchased from, please let me know.
Thanks.
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samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett) (10/07/87)
In article <21589KSN@PSUVMB> KSN@PSUVMB.BITNET (Peter A. Krupa) writes: >I'm searching for good version of standard Pascal (UCSD if possible), >and a great version of C (ANSI standard) for the Atari 1040ST. If you >know of a company either can be purchased from, please let me know. UCSD Pascal (aka the Power System) for the Atari ST is available for about $100 from: Pecan Software Systems 1410 - 39th Street Brooklyn NY 11218 (718) 851-3100 (they may have an 800 number, and regularly advertise in BYTE). -- Sam'l Bassett, Writer/Editor/Consultant -- ideas & opinions mine! 34 Oakland Ave., San Anselmo CA 94960; (415) 454-7282 UUCP: {...known world...}!hplabs OR ptsfa OR lll-crg!well!samlb; Compuserve: 71735,1776; WU Easylink ESL 6284-3034; MCI SBassett
koster@msudoc.ee.mich-state.edu (Kurt Koster) (10/08/87)
In article <4158@well.UUCP> samlb@well.UUCP (Samuel B. Bassett) writes: >In article <21589KSN@PSUVMB> KSN@PSUVMB.BITNET (Peter A. Krupa) writes: >>I'm searching for good version of standard Pascal (UCSD if possible), >>and a great version of C (ANSI standard) for the Atari 1040ST. If you >>know of a company either can be purchased from, please let me know. > > UCSD Pascal (aka the Power System) for the Atari ST is available for >about $100 from: > > Pecan Software Systems > 1410 - 39th Street > Brooklyn NY 11218 > (718) 851-3100 > [Garf!] Don't even try to use Pecan packages. They have the worst user interface that I have see [on any machine]. Aside from that, there is _NO_ support for TOS files or file structure. Aside from that, it took me 2 months to get a glimmer of how their user interface was supposed to operate. After I figured it out, I wished I hadn't wasted the time. I don't know what the benchmarks say, but I know that I couldn't stand programming in their language. If you're really stuck on pascal, you might try Modula-2 from TDI. It is a nice language, in a good implementation that is quite comfortable to use. Almost as good as C. [snide comment for the day] If I can ever stomache using the package again, I will write a full review of their "Power" system in an upcoming ST-Log. -KurtO {ihnp4!msudoc!koster}