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Subject: Pascal Emacs project starting
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Date: Fri, 11-Nov-83 00:08:00 EST
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From:  Jerry E. Pournelle <POURNE@mit-mc>

Are you writing an EMACS in Pascal, or what?

In any case, I suggest you try for "clean" Pascal, as this will
make your product compatible with Pascal/M and MT+; this will
get you on to CP/M and CP/M-86 as well as PC-DOS.  The features
to watch out for:

1) naughty bit manipulations.
2) SCAN -- this procedure is very dangerous, as it has *N*O*
type checking!
3)  Other un-standard Pascal prox and funx.  String handling is
is kosher; these are compatible from SCUD Pascal to MT+.

4)  File handling based too harshly on UCSD.  The SCUD
file-handler was written in too short a time by a pair of
overworked undergrads; it's not very universall.
5)  Be Modular -- or Be Modula (our current language flame.)

Good luck.
				-Alex Pournelle