Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!ujocs!jlavi
From: jlavi@ujocs.joensuu.fi (Jarkko Lavinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Metacomo Pascal
Message-ID: <1991Feb6.130322.7160@ujocs.joensuu.fi>
Date: 6 Feb 91 13:03:22 GMT
References: <9590@dog.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: University of Joensuu, Finland
Lines: 21


	I've used Metacomco Pascal 2.xx for years now. It is slow, but it works.
Unlike the 1.xx versions, this doesn't guru often.

	It supports strings (there IS STRING type !!!), it supports AmigaDos
calls directly, it has all the include files like in assembler or c, but in
Pascal. You can also call external modules written in C.

	The distribution disk has Speechtoy as an example. It's straight port
from C code, but in Pascal. I once compiled it and the result is a code that is
distinctable only by the huge executable size. Otherwise it looks exactly like
the original program. I think I have good reason to claim that one CAN open
windows from Pascal programs, I have done that by myself.
	Of course there were problems. Like (struct XYZ *) had to be done by
variable record kludge and had to initialize records "structs" field by field.

	2.xx came much too late. It should have been available at once. Mine is
dated June 88. 

	Jarkko Lavinen