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From: grimesg@magic (George Grimes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: VAX Pascal
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Date: 30 May 89 14:17:59 GMT
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In article <3466@tank.uchicago.edu> dwayne@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu writes:
>Hey!!!! Are there any VAX Pascal programmers outthere????
>
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>
>    1) Optimization.  Have you ever had a program work when compiled
>    	/no-optimize but not otherwise.
Not lately...things seem to be pretty solid now.
>    2) Programs.  I have some good Pascal programs for the VAX,
>    	but I've never posted them because everybody seems to be
>    	TP.
Post it.  I'd be interested in seeing it.
>    3) Directives.  Does anyone know what all of the VAX compiler
>    	directives really do?
I'm not sure I know all of them but if you have questions about specific
ones then post them.
>    4) Resource sharing.  ANSI standard Pascal is aweful for 
>    	sharing anything.  But VAX has a lot of power actually.
>    	(This is what I do, by the way)
I'm not sure what you mean about the sharing but I agree that Vax Pascal
is very powerful.  I wish some of it's extensions were available in my
PC versions.
>
>There are all sorts of things that can be discussed about other
>implementations of Pascal.  So let me know if there is anybody
>out there, before I unsubscibe (after 6 mos.) also.
>
>Dwayne Spradlin
Certainly there are others here.

George Grimes



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