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From: jph@whuxlb.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Pascal for IBM PC - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 29-Aug-83 14:17:58 EDT
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whuxlb!jph    Aug 27 09:32:00 1983

I have been using the IBM PASCAL and have found it to
be very good. The extensions that it has allows
pointers to be the full 20-bit addresses so that you
can access anything in menory. The code generated (if
you turn off the run-time checks) is very good. But
even with the run-time checks left on, it runs fast.

Reasonable interfaces are provided to I/O, with random
access to the disk. It have separate compilations and
INTERFACEs and UNITs to help define separate modules.
Assembly language routines can be easily written and
interfaced with the language.