Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!boingo.med.jhu.edu!haven!adm!news From: A1.RJS@isumvs.iastate.edu ( Ricardo Salvador) Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal Subject: RE:Pascal on Mac Message-ID: <26412@adm.brl.mil> Date: 29 Mar 91 18:15:02 GMT Sender: news@adm.brl.mil Lines: 43 eldred@rrunner.jpl.nasa.gov "Dan Eldred" says: >In article <1991Mar29.023857.17000@neon.Stanford.EDU> >mrhoten@neon.Stanford.EDU (Matthew Paul Rhoten) writes: >>In article <1991Mar28.211620.11901@bnlux1.bnl.gov> >>kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes: >>>If no turbo pascal on the mac, then what pascal do people use on >>>the Mac? >Borland *DID* sell Turbo-Pascal for the mac a while back--about 4 >years ago. I don't they ever sold anything past version 1.1, which >doesn't work under multinder. Nevertheless, Turbo-Pascal was pretty >darn good, and I am mystified why they chose to not maintain it. I don't know either, although they _claim_ that they still support owners of the original Mac TP. They do so via telephone (very narrow window of available hours on CLT (California Laid-back Time), from 12:00 to 5:00 if I remember correctly. The CompuServe support consists mainly of a beleaguered sysop who once used Mac TP and can whimper along with you over the fact it is no longer an active product. I have version 1.1 but the fact that it is not MultiFinder friendly keeps it on the shelf. Think Pascal is a great compiler. OOP support and a huge library of objects for GUI stuff are very nice (whole thing occupies 4.5 Mb on hard disk, but the compiler itself only takes up about 0.5 Mb.) Also, the associated on-line tutorial (Just Enough Pascal) is a very good way to learn the system if one has some programming experience already. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ricardo Salvador - Iowa State University of Science and Technology - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Asst. Prof. of Agronomy +----------------------------------------+ | BITNET: A1.RJS@ISUMVS | 1126 Agronomy Hall | A3RJS@ISUVAX | | INTERNET: A1.RJS@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU | Iowa State University of | COMPUSERVE: RSalvador | Science and Technology | GEnie: R.Salvador | Ames, Iowa 50011 +----------------------------------------+ -------------------------------------------------------------------- "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way." - Bertrand Russell - --------------------------------------------------------------------