felsenst@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Joe Felsenstein) (11/22/88)
When I inquired recently about Pascals available for Microport Unix, I got four replies. Three made the same recommendation: Eric Beser (... ames!haven!umbc3!tron!beser) wrote: > I am using metaware's pascal with good results. Optimizations > are good, it interfaces cleanly to C, and has a lot of > Ada - like extensions that make for good systems programming. > The cost is a little high ($800), but I feel worth it. Wes ("Barnacle Wes") Peters (... Sun.COM!obie!wes) wrote: > I think the MetaWare 386 Pascal compiler is available for Unix. Try > calling Programmer's Paradise (800) 445-7899, Programmer's Connection > (800) 336-116, or The Programmer's Shop (800) 421-8006. These numbers > are all from ads in a recent (10/88) issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, BTW. Another user, whose message I have mislaid (apologies), also made the same recommendation. The lone exception was Dave Remien (... cs.utexas.edu!pmafire!dave) who wrote: > You could always use the public domain Pascal to C converter. I've got a > copy I'll be glad to mail you - it's about 90k compressed. Or if you > want, you can pick it up on our '386 machine. It's pretty decent; the > only thing I've wanted that it doesn't have is Berkeley Pascal string > support. This last suggestion would be the cheapest but would make it a bit hard to debug programs. Based on these comments and a friend's strong positive statements about the PCDOS Metaware Pascal, I have ordered it. However I would still like to know whether anyone has any information about LPI Pascal, Green Hills Pascal, etc. Many thanks to those who responded. I not been aware that Metaware Pascal might be available. Joe Felsenstein, Dept. of Genetics SK-50, Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195 BITNET: FELSENST@UWALOCKE INTERNET: joe@evolution.ms.washington.edu or: uw-evolution!joe@entropy.ms.washington.edu UUCP: ... uw-beaver!uw-entropy!uw-evolution!joe