dickow@ui3.UUCP (12/22/86)
I have been looking around the notes lately for any mention of the
PROMAL language. It is pretty new, and is designed for implementation virtually
exclusively on micros. It is now available for the C64, the Apple IIe/IIc, and
the IBM PC and true compatibles, from Systems Management Associates, in Raleigh
North Carolina.
The language is a sort of blend of Pascal and C, but with a simplified
syntax that eliminates semi-colon terminators and internal BEGINs and ENDs.
Performance is outstanding, and does Sieve benchmark faster than Borland's
Turbo Pascal on IBM.
I have been using this system on C64 and IIe, and can say that it is
a beautiful package, very well documented and supported, frequent and cheap
updates, a newsletter, source code availability, graphics packages available,
and other features that make it a good 'professional' level development pkg.
If I sound like a salesman, it's only because I like the product and
want to find a community of users so I can share experiences.
Incidentally, for C programmers, it is similar in enough ways that I was
able to type in literally a source listing from a magazine, changing only
some preprocessor commands and declarations, and it compiled in PROMAL.
Let the community know about your interest in this language.
Bob Dickow, University of Idaho
School of Music
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