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From: mrhoten@neon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Paul Rhoten)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: Pascal on Mac
Summary: Think.
Keywords: think pascal 3.0 macintosh
Message-ID: <1991Mar29.023857.17000@neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 29 Mar 91 02:38:57 GMT
References: <1991Mar28.211620.11901@bnlux1.bnl.gov>
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Organization: Komputer Science Department, Spamford University
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In article <1991Mar28.211620.11901@bnlux1.bnl.gov> 
kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:
>Is there a turbo pascal version for the Mac? 
>If no turbo pascal on the mac, then what pascal do people use on the Mac?
>[...]
>-Chris
>kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov

As far as I know Borland hasn't written up Turbo for the Mac. The only two
Pascal compilers of note are really Think Pascal and MPW Pascal. Think
Pascal has a source-level debugger to die for, object support (and an
extremely extensive class library which gives a lot of interface for free);
it also generates decent code. Additionally it has excellent support for 
Macintosh-specific routines. MPW has a rather nice shell, and can be 
integrated with other languages with minimal effort - you can buy lots
of neato chunks for MPW, besides Pascal. It also compiles in the background,
and can do Object Pascal as well.

Think is distributed by:
Symantec Corp.
10201 Torre Avenue
Cupertino, CA 95014
(408) 253-9600

MPW is distributed by:
APDA
Apple Computer, Inc.
20525 Mariani Avenue, M/S 33-G
Cupertino, CA 95014-6299
1-800-282-2732 (orders)

Sprinkle in some (tm)'s in the above, I suppose. Anyway, I've used both of
these compilers, and they're both quite good. If you care, I use Think for
my development, mostly because I don't own MPW Pascal, just the 68K assembler.
Check them both out.
 -matt

PS I work for no one mentioned here, take this stuff 'as is'.
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