According to Berend de Boer:
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gpc isn't developed for the dos platform.
GPC has been developped for *all* platforms including DOS. :-)
Borland excellently fills that need.
No.
Borland *did* excellently fill that need, but there has been no progress in Borland Pascal since BP 7.0 appeared in 1992 - 5 years ago. Borland does not support the DOS platform any more so there *is* need for a better Pascal compiler for DOS which allows to orientate towards Linux, OS/2 and other systems as alternatives to Windows 95.
I want gpc to create truly platform independent programs for my unix machine.
Here we agree completely. (-:
Greetings,
Peter
Dipl.-Phys. Peter Gerwinski, Essen, Germany, free physicist and programmer peter.gerwinski@uni-essen.de - http://home.pages.de/~peter.gerwinski/ [970201] maintainer GNU Pascal [970401] - http://home.pages.de/~gnu-pascal/ [970125]
On Sun, 6 Apr 1997, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
Hi:
gpc isn't developed for the dos platform.
GPC has been developped for *all* platforms including DOS. :-)
Borland excellently fills that need. I want gpc to create truly platform independent programs for my unix machine.
I'm a developer moving from Turbo Pascal to Delphi. I think the main goal of a pascal compiler for non-DOS is to port some of the hughe amount of software that is "out-there". Think about the ten of thousands of programmers that you could say "hey, why you don't get your programms and recompile it for Linux?". ISO standards are very well, but the meter is an international unit of mesure not followed in US and UK and it seems there is no problem about that.
My wish is to have an option in gpc that, with the proper units, could compile directly my tens of TP programs. Of course, I'm not expecting the other Pascal versions should disappear!! I think if I have to rebuild the source, better on java; maybe that's not your case but mine.
Happy typing! :)
(And sorry about my poor english)
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