GNU Pascal Compiler Released For Mac OS X

MacDaffy writes "Kudos to Adriaan Van Os: He has produced a 'second prerelease' of the GNU Pascal compiler for Mac OS X. Work actively proceeds on porting the Carbon Pascal Interfaces for use with it (longtime Macintosh Pascal guru Peter N Lewis has already gotten a great start on this). Thanks to Adriaan, Peter, and Bill Catambay of Pascal Central for helping take Pascal on Macintosh into the future."

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.pas pascal program

[Anonymous Coward]

{ firstpost.pas }

var
s : String;

begin
Write('First post');
ReadLn(s);
WriteLn('You typed: ',s);
WriteLn('Hit <Enter> to exit');
ReadLn;
end.

Why???

[Draoi]

I understand that there doesn't need to be a reason why something should be implemented so long as it scratches a programmer's itch, but Pascal on the Mac was dreadful as an API for developing Classic apps. Most Mac developers breathed a sigh of relief when Apple finally killed it. Even today, there's still a legacy of MacOS's Pascal origins (length-prefixed strings in APIs and file system structures, wacky structure alignment issues, etc.)

I can remember picking up maintenance on certain Mac apps and being horrified to find them written in a mixture of Pascal, C and 68K Assembler. All compiling under MPW and linking to a fat binary (yeah, with the 68K code).

Anyways - when I read the link, my initial reaction was 'Yeek! Pascal on the Mac again!'

Archeo-computaion

[goombah99]

Archeo-computologists every where will rejoice at this. I'm still holding my breath for the long awaited GNU ENIAC emulator so I can get all my old eniac programms running again. Now if I can just remember where I stored the wiring punch boards...

this is so exciting

[klez23]

Now i can use all my first year computer science programs from 1992! It's been a long time since my computer said, "hello world!"