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- From: rocky@nnsgs50.lon40.nt.com (Dave Kennard)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn.tech
- Subject: Re: RiscOSLib for ISO-Pascal
- Date: 9 Nov 1992 11:59:38 GMT
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- References: <1992Nov5.163553.11099@ugle.unit.no> <BxDLw7.DHH@ibmpcug.co.uk> <1992Nov8.054645.1589@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov8.054645.1589@news2.cis.umn.edu> alla0008@student.tc.umn.edu () writes:
- >In article <BxDLw7.DHH@ibmpcug.co.uk> gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:
- >>Oh - I should have said this earlier; I only recently discovered that Acorn
- >>ad released Edward's excellent Pascal to the world, non-commercially.
-
- >>*FULL MARKS* to acorn for an excellent decision. It really was the
- >>right thing to do given that you had good reasons not to market it.
-
- Agreed.
-
- >>I was wondering though - it des *not* seem to have been well publicised.
- >>Why don't you arrange with one of the magazines (BAU?) to publish it
- >>as a cover disk? That would be a major coup for a magazine and excellent
- >>publicity for Acorn.
-
- They have - sort of! The Desktop Pascal compiler has been released
- by Archive magazine through Norwich Computer services 'Careware' disks
- (i.e. PD with a small charity element). The disk {Careware 17 if memory
- serves) is L5.00 from NCS.
-
- >This is an excellent idea - but it might need to have quite a lot of other
- >bits and pieces included for it to be useful to many people (ie, those who
- >don't already have Desktop C). It would need to have the FrontEnd module,
- >etc, and the linker, to start with, and maybe the 'C' libraries too. Now,
- >*that*, as a fully-functional Pascal setup, would be an amazing
- >non-commercial release! Probably rather too much for Acorn to contemplate
- >though... I guess the libraries account for most of the cost of the C
- >package. I just can't help feeling there might be a lot of disappointed
- >people when they realise they have this Pascal compiler but can't use it
- >without buying Desktop C or Assembler. Not Acorn's fault, but you can see
- >how it might rebound publicity-wise. Still a nice idea, well worth
- >thinking about.
-
- It is (virtually) a pre-requiste that you already have Desktop C in order
- to be able to run the Desktop Pascal compiler - for the reasons stated
- above.
-
- Having had the oppurtunity to play with it, it seems OK. The debugger
- (DDT) has no direct support for Pascal-like syntax, but you still have
- symbolic debugging with a 'C' like syntax.
-
- See recent articles in Archive magazine - Languages' column - for more
- details.
-
- >Graham allan@mnhep8.hep.umn.edu
-
- Hope this is of interest.
-
- Dave Kennard.
-
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