Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: Re: Apollo Pascal Message-ID: <6845@cbmvax.UUCP> Date: 12 May 89 03:26:09 GMT References: <8905022002.AA00179@apollo.bucknell.edu> <20253@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <4887@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA Lines: 16 In article broman@nosc.mil writes: > Except for the profiler and debugger, which work for C and Fortran also, > > The language supported as DOMAIN Pascal has only a superficial > resemblance to real Pascal. Don't look for conformance to > any standard at all. Even the notion of "type"... OSIL: think of it as an Apollo specific Operatings System Implementation Language and it will hurt your head less. The closest parallel might be to some of the degenerate Algol compilers used for similar purposes on Burroughs and HP machines (ESPOL, SPL). -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing arpa: cbmvax!grr@uunet.uu.net Commodore, Engineering Department fone: 215-431-9255 (only by moonlite)