[fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

[Sven Barth]

Am 23.12.2020 um 18:10 schrieb Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal:
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> On 12/22/2020 11:43 AM, Markus Greim via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Wow..
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>> Programming languages I worked with in the last 40 years:
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>> 12. SPIN
>> ....
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> When you say spin, I'm assuming you're talking about the parallax 
> propeller boards programming language.  The propeller 2 is coming out 
> shortly (already out for early adopters), and I am anxiously awaiting 
> the day I can get my hands on one.  I've built all kinds of projects 
> with the propeller 1 board, the first of which was an FM radio.
>
> But, to put this (somewhat) on topic, I've been wondering how 
> complicated it would be to port FPC to the propeller 2 board, since 
> they now have GCC ported, I would absolutely love to be able to 
> program the propeller boards in pascal.  I do have a couple of their 
> java stamps, those are interesting, and they do have a micro python 
> that can be run on the propeller 2 boards, so adding pascal should be 
> doable, I'm just not sure how much work it would take, but it would be 
> nice to have another language to add to the mix.
>

With GCC being available and there existing a port of binutils it would 
in principle be possible to implement a cross compiler of FPC. :)

Regards,
Sven
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