[comp.sys.apple] Recommendations for ][gs compilers?

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.
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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

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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.

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