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- From: sjjohnst@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Stephen Johnston)
- Subject: Re: Programming
- Message-ID: <BxMDz2.CGA@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu>
- Summary: Easy to learn programming languages
- Keywords: Programming, PACAL, HiSpeed Pascal
- Sender: Stephen J. Johnston
- Organization: University of Waterloo
- References: <8f0Ztci00XQDEhI1Ur@andrew.cmu.edu> <1992Nov12.141550.11323@Armstrong.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 20:23:16 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Nov12.141550.11323@Armstrong.EDU> prall968@Armstrong.EDU writes:
- > I would like to start writing programs from my amiga. Simple games, utilities
- > ...
- > working knowlege of Pascal, but pascal code is long a and laborious...
-
- On the contrary, I find PASCCAL programming to be fairly easy, especially
- compared to C. I use HiSpeed Pascal regularly for woork at university. It is
- very compatible with Turbo Pascal for the PC's - which is both good and bad.
- Good, because the code you write is portable (which I consider a big plus,
- since I'm supposed to hand my code in in Turbo Pascal :-) ). Bad, because
- under DOS 1.3 you're program will ALWAYS open a window if run from workbench,
- because Turbo Pascal always needs somewhere to write to. Not a problam with
- DOS 2.04, because the window only opens when you writeln or readln.
-
- HiSpeed Pascal (HisSoft corporation in the UK) can be purchased from
- Creative Computers for about $90, comes on four disks, and has two manuals.
- One is a general reference manual, the otheris a technical reference manual.
- The four disks cover version for DOS 1.3 and 2.04, as well as 'units' (similar
- to C head include files) for both versions of DOS.
-
- If you have any questions about HiSpeed Pascal, email me.
-
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