[fpc-pascal] Metaware

[Tom Walsh]

Daniël Mantione wrote:


> Wow... I doubt I would recognize that code as Pascal if I wasn't told it 
> was. Free Pascal implements the UCSD-Pascal derived dialects of the 
> language (Turbo Pascal, Delphi, Metrowerks Pascal).
>
> Daniël
>  
>   
>> ========== begin ================
>> export (libdos4);
>>
>> { Include MetaWare libraries }
>> pragma c_include('implement.pf');
>> pragma c_include('language.pf');
>> ...
>> ...
>> pragma c_include('dospriv.inc');
>>
>>     

Yes, I know.  I learned the UCSD Pascal dialect while programming old 
Apple ][ pascal.  Heh, that was a while ago.  This Metaware looks pretty 
much like UCSD code in a lot of respects, but then they go into these 
weird C-like extensions.

Fortunately, the developers are still very much active writing new code 
against the Metaware compiler.  You know how it is, just like Cobol, 
once you get them hooked (swindled?), management will keep shoveling 
money into it...

TomW




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