Adriaan van Os wrote:
I might be a little confused about the Pascal compilers by Apple and/or for Mac, since I've never used one of them myself.
Yes, it is confusing, so I have listed the Pascal compilers for Macintosh that I know of:
- Turbo Pascal (by Borland), only a version 1.0. An excellent
compiler,
Oh, I must correct myself, I actually used that at school for a few weeks (it was even 3.0 IIRC), before they switched to PCs ...
but for some reason the product was discontinued.
I think the reason is easy: Borland added many PC specific features in the later versions, many of which are hard to impossible to make portable. (I know because I did that in GPC, as far as possible.) To support another platform would have meant they'd have to make quite a different and incompatible compiler. (Or to design the features properly in the first place, but it seems that wasn't an option for them ...)
- MetroWerks Pascal (by MetroWerks), their pre-CodeWarrior standalone
Pascal compiler, a sibling of their Modula compiler (both rather unknown).
- Apple MPW Pascal (by Apple Computer) for the Macintosh Programmer's
Workshop.
So "MWP" vs. "MPW", that's what was a little confusing ...
Frank