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From: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Les Barstow: Phoenix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: //GS
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Date: 7 May 90 04:32:28 GMT
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Reply-To: lmb7421@ultb.isc.rit.edu (Les Barstow: Phoenix)
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In article <7988@rouge.usl.edu> ec142123@pc.usl.edu (Leece Matt B) writes:
>1.  I know all my IBM friends can write a prog. in Turbo Pascal and then 
>    xmodem the file to the UNIX computer.  So they don't have to use the
>    terrible editor that is on here.  If I use a pascal or C compiler will
>    I be able to do the same?

Answer: Yes.  GS compilers, unlike older Apple compilers, are full
implementations of their respective languages, with extensions for the
GS's graphics and sound and file systems.  Provided you write standard
code and avoid those special interfaces, your code is completely
portable.  ORCA/C is a full ANSI C compiler (with a few diffs, but
nothing major).  TML Pascal is reasonably standard (although the file
system commands are strange - more related to GS/OS than to Pascal); I
believe ORCA Pascal is more standard in this respect.  The desktop
editor ORCA provides with their compilers is superb.  It even has
auto-indent (something I missed terribly since UCSD Pascal years ago).

>2.  Will I be able to launch the files form the desktop once the are compiled
>    and linked?

Answer: Yes.  Some small modifications must be made to the file (change
the filetype), but other than that, yes.
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