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From: clcp16@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Metacomo Pascal
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.144137.9922@vaxa.strath.ac.uk>
Date: 6 Feb 91 14:41:36 GMT
References: <43675@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <841@cbmger.UUCP>
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In article <841@cbmger.UUCP>, peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) writes:
> In article <43675@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Dennis_Grant%CMR001.bitnet@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca writes:
>>
>>     Does anybody know what the most recent release of Metacomo Pascal is?
>>Is Metacomo still in business?
> 
> Don't know. Never heard about it/them for already long time.

Metacomco are long since gone, and all their products have gone too.
MCC stuff may have been slow, but it worked.

> 
> But how about KickPascal, from Maxon (in Eschborn, Germany)?
> It gets good critics in the magazines. (I'm no Pascal expert myself.)

Kickpascal's quite neat. I saw an early version of it many moons ago - it's
all integrated, a bit like Turbo Pascal on that machine.

PCQ Pascal on Fish Disk 339 (am I right?) is OK for low cost small scale
messing about with Pascal, if you need that sort of thing.

	Stewart C. Russell
	University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.