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From: dataxpress@cup.portal.com (John Philip Eurich)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Pascal on Apollo
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Date: 28 Aug 89 22:10:20 GMT
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In reply to Guy Lapalme's article
< We have been using the Apollo Pascal Compiler for teaching undergraduates 
< but we have been very disappointed with it:
<   - it does not detect subrange overflow 
<   - it does not have conformant array
<   - there are all kinds of loopholes in the type checking
<   - it does not check overflow on input (so reading 12344567890234568
<             might return -34...)
< In summary, there are all kinds of "extensions" but the basic and clean
< Pascal needed for teaching undergraduate is not implemented correctly.
<
< Is somebody aware of a better Pascal compiler to use on Apollos?

MetaWare, Inc. of Santa Cruz, CA has a Pascal compiler that runs on a number
of platforms, including Apollo.  They call it Professional Pascal and it is
by far one of the best Pascal compilers on the market.  Their phone number is
(408) 429-6382.

John Eurich