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From: kent@swrinde.nde.swri.edu (Kent D. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: PASCAL NEEDED! HELP!
Message-ID: <25359@swrinde.nde.swri.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 90 22:16:45 GMT
References: <15500025@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <27600@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: kent@swrinde.UUCP (Kent D. Polk)
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In article <27600@cup.portal.com> FelineGrace@cup.portal.com (Dana B Bourgeois) writes:
>[ This is just about the last of the sophomoric line eater thingies...]
>
>MetaCompCo markets a Pascal Compiler that works.  I don't know how good
>structures and stuff.  I haven't seen a review of 2.0 but there was one
>from several years ago on 1.25 which had some support of the ROM.

MCC Pascal is not worth buying. It can barely compile even simple
Pascal programs. 2.0 finally got 'with' to where is was handling
offsets correctly, but several other major bugs are still in there.

I have sent in bug reports, but never, except for my first (for
1.25) have I received a reply, much less a fix.

>PS.  I could be persueaded to part with my upgrade-able 0.9 Rev version
>for $50.  Includes information on the upgrade to 1.25!  But a better deal

1.25 is severly broken. In short, MCC Pascal never got the the point
where it could even be used in a Data Structures I class without lots
of nasty work-arounds (I know cause I did those nasty workarounds).

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