DOMINIQUE THILLAUD wrote:
I'm teacher at the Université de Nice and intend to use Pascal as a supporting language in the course of basic algorithmic (first semester, first year, introduction to computer science, about 700 students). Last year I used Java in this course, a language too difficult for beginners and I've won a small war to obtain the return of Pascal.
Good to hear so !
[hermes:~/Documents/Fac/Pascal] dominiqu% gpc hello.pas /var/tmp//ccZQLUHj.s:56:Parameter error: expression out of range (parameter 4)
GPC produces assembly code which is then turned over to the assembler and it looks like you are having a problem with Apple's assembler "as". The assembler doesn't come installed with Apple's system software. What version are you running ? Type "as -v" on the Terminal command line (and afterwards control-C (sorry)).
[G4:~/gnu/testgpc/adriaan] adriaan% as -v Apple Computer, Inc. version cctools-435.obj~4, GNU assembler version 1.38
The latest assembler is included with Apple's ADC Development Tools CDs, but you can also join the ADC online program free of charge at https://connect.apple.com.
I have been working on a small assembler/linker distribution from my website, but it's quite a puzzel with the different licenses, all the needed files and source distributions that don't compile.
- I would need a syntactically adapted text editor, the simplest as
possible (to install and use it) because I'm not a developper and I've a very few knowledge of the Unix system (strictly speaking, I'm not a computer scientist but a teacher firstly specialized in mathematics and linguistics) : what would be the better choice ?
Maybe BBEdit, if it is still a free download, Peter and Gale know more about it than I do. Also, I am working on CodeWarrior integration (which has in my humble opinion the friendliest text editor (I have been working with it for over ten years now, day and night)). You can also try Apple's ProjectBuilder, which is included with the above ADC downloads.
Regards,
Adriaan van Os