[fpc-pascal] [OT] Pascal compiler for embedded platforms

Roberto P. padovani.r at gmail.com
Fri Mar 15 01:27:51 CET 2013


Thanks a lot for your comments, very interesting indeed.
Can you make a comparison against FPC target-embedded ?

I routinely write in C for the microcontrollers I use, but now with ARM
Cortex M3 I could try Pascal.
I'm just a little afraid of the potentially limited maturity of these.

Thanks!

  Roberto


2013/3/15 Rainer Stratmann <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>

> Am Thursday 14 March 2013 23:36:58 schrieb Roberto P.:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > has anyone of you had the chance to try this Pascal compiler for embedded
> > platforms?
> >
> > http://www.mikroe.com/mikropascal/
> >
> > Any comment will be appreciated!
> >
> > Roberto
>
> Yes,
>
> good product and good company.
> I visited the company at embedded world fair in Nürnberg, Germany and was
> impressed of them.
>
> http://www.embedded-world.de
>
> They improve their products and they have 16 (or 60) employees one man
> told me
> at the fair.
>
> On W98 were problems with the software, so I was sceptical but on XP the
> Pascal compiler runs good. You can try the demo version with 4k code.
>
> I work with it now. Interrupts can be programmed.
>
> There are little things that are for me not 100% understandeable such as if
> you put space inbetween numbers (and names) that the compiler will
> recognise
> this as if there were no spaces inbetween... But there are other positive
> things. Good libraries. Intuitive and userfriendly behaviour once you get
> used to it.
>
> In the past I programmed in pure assembler, but now I migrated a project
> which
> needed some weeks or months almost in some days to pascal.
>
> Important for me was that the software does not need internet access,
> because
> I only want to go online with Linux.
>
> They told me that they will cooperate with a big german distributor (Conrad
> Electronic).
>
> best regards, Rainer
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