cs121jj@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (03/05/90)
Where can I find a pascal compiler for the Amiga? Either PD, ShareWare or store-bought? I don't care where, but I just need one and soon (the sooner the better)! Thanks in advance.
FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (03/06/90)
[ This is just about the last of the sophomoric line eater thingies...]
MetaCompCo markets a Pascal Compiler that works. I don't know how good
it is, though. I bought the 0.9 revisions that wouldn't access *any*
ROM stuff. No graphics, no windows...nothing! The latest is Revision
2.0 that is supposed to support all of the ROM code and libraries and
structures and stuff. I haven't seen a review of 2.0 but there was one
from several years ago on 1.25 which had some support of the ROM.
Hope this semi-sentient rambling helps.
Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com
PS. I could be persueaded to part with my upgrade-able 0.9 Rev version
for $50. Includes information on the upgrade to 1.25! But a better deal
is to order it from the Software Shop (1-800-752-0050). They list it for
$95. 7-Day Software has UCSD-Pascal for $249/449. All this from the
March Amiga World.
{ No, I don't work for any of those companies. I can't even spell the
word! werk! werk! werk! }kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk) (03/07/90)
In article <27600@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes: >[ This is just about the last of the sophomoric line eater thingies...] > >MetaCompCo markets a Pascal Compiler that works. I don't know how good >structures and stuff. I haven't seen a review of 2.0 but there was one >from several years ago on 1.25 which had some support of the ROM. MCC Pascal is not worth buying. It can barely compile even simple Pascal programs. 2.0 finally got 'with' to where is was handling offsets correctly, but several other major bugs are still in there. I have sent in bug reports, but never, except for my first (for 1.25) have I received a reply, much less a fix. >PS. I could be persueaded to part with my upgrade-able 0.9 Rev version >for $50. Includes information on the upgrade to 1.25! But a better deal 1.25 is severly broken. In short, MCC Pascal never got the the point where it could even be used in a Data Structures I class without lots of nasty work-arounds (I know cause I did those nasty workarounds). ==================================================================== Kent Polk - Southwest Research Institute - kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu Motto : "Anything worth doing is worth overdoing" ====================================================================
mapjilg@bath.ac.uk (J I L Gold) (03/07/90)
I don't know about Pascal but there is at least one Modula 2 compiler for Ami, and Modula 2 is only slightly different from Pascal in most respects. -- # J.Gold | mapjilg@uk.ac.bath.gdr # # University of Bath , UK | jilg@uk.ac.bath.maths #
FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) (03/10/90)
I took my data structures class using MCC Pascal 0.9!! Don't tell anybody but the last four of the six programming problems we had to do didn't work. I used to work with a guy who had TurboPascal on a mac and we would get something running there. Then I would cobble up some Input and output hardcopy that looked real. The programs I wrote would compile but they always seemed to crash or srite over themselves. I had one that only worked when I put print statements every few lines. Depending on where I put them, I could get just about any type of exception I wanted. Dana Bourgeois @ cup.portal.com Where there's a will, there's cheating!! Don't use anything less than MCC Pascal 2.0!! (and maybe not even that!!) This horror story brought to you by: Me!
GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) (03/12/90)
I have been using PCQ from a fish disk circa 220. It has problems,
but it works and it's free.
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