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In article <10896@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@spahn.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
[difficulty of compiling HLL to 6502]
>Apple was (emphasis on past tense) feeding Byteworks $50,000/year for the 
>APW license, I'm impressed that Mike Westerfield put as much as he did into
>ORCA/Pascal and ORCA/C (didn't stop me from asking him for C++ though!).
>Nonetheless, ORCA/C has a *long* way to go before typical PC developers would
>consider using it to port their products to the GS (and speed, both of the
>compiler and compiled code, is only part of the problem).
>
>*** Randy Hyde

Even though Orca/C is written in Pascal (MPW Pascal, I presume), it's still
fairly fast even compared to a Sun I use at work.  The Sun is admittedly
several times faster compiling, but then I didn't pay close to $10,000
for my GS, either.

I am nonetheless very impressed with what Mike has accomplished (although I
still insist he hire some programmers so C can be fixed before the new
millenium).

And Randy- a good number of the C++ "compilers" out there are nothing more
than translators that take C++ and spit out C code.  There is no reason such
a beast couldn't be written for the GS.  Object oriented stuff isn't hard
to do at all- even without a special language that supports it, one can
program in an OOP style very effectively.

This is, BTW, an attempt to get one of you reading this motivated.

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