stern@navajo.cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffrey a stern) (08/19/89)
Does anyone have recommendations for their favorite compilers for the //gs, other than APW? TML Pascal, Basic? Orca C? Orca Assembler? Merlin 16? I need to know as I'd like to get one, and want to know the advantages and disadvantages of each. Thanks.... Jeff Stern. -=- stern@cis.ohio-state.edu: Internet | "Eppur si muove." | osu-cis!tut!stern : UUCP | -Galileo |:->{===< 72647,1527 : CompuServe | ` / -=- stern@cis.ohio-state.edu: Internet | "Eppur si muove." | osu-cis!tut!stern : UUCP | -Galileo |:->{===# 72647,1527 : CompuServe | ` /
jabernathy@pro-europa.cts.com (Joe Abernathy) (08/20/89)
Comment to message from: navajo.cis.ohio-state.edu!stern@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (jeffrey a stern) For low-level to high-intermediate programming, use Micol Advanced BASIC. It's nearly as fast as assembly for most tasks, and much easier in which to write. If you like assembly language, Merlin Plus is a little nicer than ORCA/M. If you are comfortable with sophisticated memory management, including data structure design and pointers -- or if you don't mind learning -- get ORCA/C. It's really the nicest compiler available today for the Apple II. Avoid all TML products for now. In two months, TML Pascal II should be available, and it promises to be a real innovator. But this is now, and the current TML languages are shot full of holes, beginning with an incompatibility with the current ProDOS. Joe Abernathy ---- UUCP: {nosc, uunet!cacilj, sdcsvax, hplabs!hp-sdd, sun.com} ...!crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!jabernathy ARPA: crash!pnet01!pro-nsfmat!pro-europa!jabernathy@nosc.mil INET: jabernathy@pro-europa.cts.com - BITNET: pro-europa.uucp!jabernathy@psuvax1 ALPE: JoeA17
dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) (08/22/89)
In article <8908211837.AA16982@trout.nosc.mil> jabernathy@pro-europa.cts.com (Joe Abernathy) writes: >[...] >Avoid all TML products for now. In two months, TML Pascal II should be >available, and it promises to be a real innovator. But this is now, and the >current TML languages are shot full of holes, beginning with an >incompatibility with the current ProDOS. > >Joe Abernathy What's the incompatibility with System Software 5.0? TML Pascal 1.50A standalone is working for me just as well as it did with 4.0--which is pretty well. Well enough to develop DIcEd with. --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.