Gale Paeper wrote:
Emil Jerabek wrote:
Before you start worrying about supporting this feature: I've never worked with Macs, I was just inferring from the description of `Interactive' posted by Adriaan.
Just to clear up a potential misunderstanding - Adriaan's postings in this thread is discussing the Apple UCSD Pascal compiler for the Apple II line of computers. For the Macintosh line of computers, a different Apple Pascal compiler (MPW Pascal) was used. Although the MPW Pascal language dialect supported some legacy Apple UCSD Pascal features, all but one of the 17 Apple UCSD Pascal items Adriaan posted a while back were pretty much completely unsupported. (The one that unaltered support continued on was the standard Pascal Page procedure.)
There is another one in MPW, bit packing, it is also in GPC. The list of 17 items posted are those features in UCSD Pascal that didn't make it to BP, I recall ...
Frank Heckenbach wrote:
Adriaan van Os wrote:
BTW, the latter is interesting because it would be one of the (relatively few) UCSD features that BP doesn't share.
Some more in Apple UCSD Pascal (just for the record)
But thanks for the clarification. To clarify up another potential misunderstanding: UCSD Pascal did run on other systems than the Apple II, but I don't have any experience that (I think CBFalconer has), which is why I am refering to Apple UCSD Pascal.
By the way, what is a "legacy" feature ? Who issues the verdict and on what grounds ? Common opinion ? Some people, mostly not those with much technical skill, refer to Pascal itself as a "legacy" language ... We have to judge features, algorithms languages and design in general on merits, not on prejudice.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os