Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!cmcl2!ccnysci!alexis
From: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Object Pascal on the PC!
Message-ID: <1604@ccnysci.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 89 10:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: alexis@ccnysci.UUCP (Alexis Rosen)
Organization: City College of New York
Lines: 20


Well, this is a truly weird state of affairs. According to PC Week, MicroSoft
is about to announce a new version of QuickPascal that compiles Object Pascal,
which Apple developed! Could this language actually be headed for a big
future? Perhaps for compiling MacApp programs under OS/2 Presentation
Manager?

I'd bet a tall stack of bills that that's exactly what MicroSoft wants.
I'd also bet that someone, maybe even MicroSoft, will develope an automatic
translator, or else a subroutine package, to make toolbox calls call equivalent
PM calls. This isn't trivial, but if they do it the Mac's software advantage
disappears overnight.  I know this is a very difficult job, since the Mac
and OS/2-PM don't map exactly, but they're probably close enough.

Life's getting very interesting, folks...

---
Alexis Rosen
alexis@ccnysci.{uucp,bitnet}
alexis@rascal.ics.utexas.edu  (last resort)