Subj : This Echo?
To   : Jasen Betts
From : Andy Ball
Date : Sat Aug 24 2002 09:20 pm

Hi Jasen,

 JB> AFAIK FPC is a "Borland" pascal not an ISO or Wirth
   > pascal, so there may be are subtle differences to what
   > you expect.

Wirth invented the language, so to a certain extent all Pascals ought to be at
least partially "Wirth pascal".  ;-)

 JB> (you didn't specify the flavour of toyue college
   > pascal exposusre)

I believe I used Borland Pascal at college, but from the other Pascal books
I've looked at it seems more consistant than (for example) BASIC.  I wasn't
using Borland libraries and have no emotional investment in Borland - I just
want something that works for me.

 JB> The GNU p2c compiler is an ISO pascal dunno if it's
   > still being developed, it's written in C and needs a
   > C compiler to produce executables.

I did try p2c (the machines I use mostly have gcc on them), and if I remember
rightly it took my Pascal source and produced credible looking C.  I forget why
the C it produced would not build.

Now is probably a good time for me to try some Pascal compilers again, making
note of the results (or lack thereof) that they produce.

Regards,
 - Andy.

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