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- From: sl8nl@cc.usu.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
- Subject: Re: Faster Pascal
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.152836.62537@cc.usu.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 15:28:35 MDT
- References: <mitchell.11@odie.ee.wits.ac.za> <warren.3.0@chchp.ac.nz> <1993Jan7.034011.3261@csx.cciw.ca>
- Organization: Utah State University
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- > Well I broke down and spent a couple of hundred bucks ($US) to evaluate
- > Stoney Brook PASCAL+ and let me say this... If it is 100% TP compatible,
- > it doesn't come that way 'right out of the box'... I'm still puttering
- > around with it (2 months later).
- >
- > I haven't been able to compile ANY of my TP6.0 code!
- >
- > Yes, there are probably 50 or so configuration switches, modes, and other
- > i's to dot and t's to cross, and it is likely that I missed some, but it
- > seems to me that the '100% TP compatible' selling feature should be
- > implemented with a metacommand in the source code {$TP_COMPAT} or
- > something like that for boobs like me. I think TASM does this 100% compat
- > with MASM with some sort of metacommand.
-
- Stony Brook Pascal+ is 99.5% compatible with TP6. I don't know what the
- problem is, but I have been able to compile all of my code right out of the
- box. That equates ot the Technojock libraries and over 500,000 lines of
- source.
-
- Josh
-