vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams) (10/05/90)
ByteWorks may have very well decided for me what high-level language I'll be teaching myself on my IIGS. They've apparently got an offer in which I can buy Orca Pascal and a Pascal tutorial for $95. This doesn't seem like a bad deal at all. Has anyone had experience with Orca Pascal. Is it good, etc? I was going to wait for a hard disk before I did something like this, but now I think I'm going to go for it. Thanks for any input. +---------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+ |Vernon L. Williams | Electronic Mail: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu | |Thomas J. Watson Library | Campus Mail: 130 Uris Hall | |Columbia University | Phone Mail: 212-854-6798 |
ST102272@BROWNVM.BROWN.EDU (Apple Defender) (10/15/90)
Go 4 it, buy ORCA Pascal. By no means buy TML Pascal. TML Pascal is a piece
of junk (believe me, I was stupid enough to buy a copy.) TML Pascal
reformats lines (incorrectly) for you, shifts every line over five spaces (so
that some of the code on the previous line ends up at the beginning of the next
line), translates your source code into incomprehensible gook, or just eats up
(or chops off, if you prefer) your source code. From what I heard, ORCA Pascal
does none of that. Plus it supposedly has more features than TML Pascal. (Oh,
the book that comes along with TML Pascal, does not teach Pascal, it just
defines how TML Pascal works.)
Moral of Story: If you're going to buy ORCA Pascal, go ahead and buy it!
If you're going to buy TML Pascal, forget TML Pascal and buy
ORCAL Pascal!
To keep this board from becoming the Pascal War Board, please address any
complaints, disagreements, arguements, hate mail or death threats to my E-Mail
address. Thanks.