Pascals for Microport Unix (Summary)

[Joe Felsenstein]

When I inquired recently about Pascals available for Microport
Unix, I got four replies.  Three made the same recommendation:

Eric Beser (... ames!haven!umbc3!tron!beser) wrote:

> I am using metaware's pascal with good results. Optimizations
> are good, it interfaces cleanly to C, and has a lot of
> Ada - like extensions that make for good systems programming.

> The cost is a little high ($800), but I feel worth it.


Wes ("Barnacle Wes") Peters (... Sun.COM!obie!wes) wrote:

> I think the MetaWare 386 Pascal compiler is available for Unix.  Try
> calling Programmer's Paradise (800) 445-7899, Programmer's Connection
> (800) 336-116, or The Programmer's Shop (800) 421-8006.  These numbers
> are all from ads in a recent (10/88) issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal, BTW.

Another user, whose message I have mislaid (apologies), also made the same
recommendation.

The lone exception was Dave Remien (... cs.utexas.edu!pmafire!dave) who wrote:

> You could always use the public domain Pascal to C converter. I've got a
> copy I'll be glad to mail you - it's about 90k compressed. Or if you
> want, you can pick it up on our '386 machine. It's pretty decent; the
> only thing I've wanted that it doesn't have is Berkeley Pascal string
> support. 


This last suggestion would be the cheapest but would make it a bit
hard to debug programs.

Based on these comments and a friend's strong positive statements
about the PCDOS Metaware Pascal, I have ordered it.  However I would
still like to know whether anyone has any information about
LPI Pascal, Green Hills Pascal, etc.

Many thanks to those who responded.  I not been aware that Metaware
Pascal might be available. 


Joe Felsenstein, Dept. of Genetics SK-50, Univ. of Washington, Seattle WA 98195
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