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From: gtoal@castle.ed.ac.uk (G Toal)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
Subject: Re: Relative Merits of RiscOS Pascals?
Message-ID: <11351@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 28 Jun 91 10:16:23 GMT
References: <2938@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk>
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In article <2938@mccuts.uts.mcc.ac.uk> zzassgl@uts.mcc.ac.uk (Geoff Lane) writes:
:I've had it with C (and don't want to discuss it :-)).
:
:There appears to be only two Pascal compilers for RiscOS, the Cambridge
:Pascal from Dabs Press and the ISO-Pascal from Acorn.  Apart from the
:obvious price advantage in favour of the Cambridge Pascal (around 20
:quid) are there any other conciderations that must be made?
:
:Can anyone give us a quick summary of how each compiler can cope with
:implementing a Wimp Application?
:

Fetch the ptc converter from newcastle and have the joys of C's easy
interface to RISC OS, and well-implemented code-generator, *and*
the lovely verbose Pascal syntax you know and love...

G