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From: net@uwmacc.UUCP (jeff kesselman)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Has anybody tried AmigaPascal?
Message-ID: <44@uwmacc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Jun-86 15:50:18 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 30 15:50:18 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 1-Jul-86 03:46:33 EDT
Reply-To: net@uwmacc.UUCP (jeff kesselman)
Organization: UWisconsin-Madison Academic Comp Center
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I am doing my thesis project on my Amiga, and kind of dread the idea of
doing a project this large in C. I was waiting for the Turbo Pascal Borland
promised last year by the first quarter of this year. Well, second quarter
has come and gone and no Turbo, methinks it begins to look like vaporware,
and in any case, I can't wait more than another month or two.

Therefor, I would like peoples reactions to AmigaPascal. (At ##@#!! $140
 I want to make damn sure it does what I need before I buy).

My thesis project is an Amiga based solid modeling animation system, so
among my primary considerations are:
1) Does it work, or is it broke?
2) Does it compile down to reasonably effecient native machine code?
3) Does it provide reasonably easy access to the Rom Kernal routines,
   particularly the graphics and window routines (and, come to think of it,
   does it provide decent access to intuition, as that makes handling the
   windows so much easier.)
4) Does it provide a reasonable environment for development of code?
   (The old Turbo environment was pretty slick! And 4. Turbo is supposed to
    be better, at least thats what they claim.)
5) What other "Turbo type" enhancements does it support or is it lacking.
   (ex: direct memory adressing, strings, etc...)

6) Also, it may be a while before I can afford a second drive, does it
   work ok with a single drive system, or does it, like C, require a 
   million disk swaps to compile something?

I'm also interested in hearing about peoples experiences in relation to the
above with Modula II compilers.

Thanx much, please direct responses to me and I'll summarize.

Jeff Kesselman
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