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From: bill@cygnus.com (Bill Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: Berkeley pascal?
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Date: 7 Oct 93 23:47:23 GMT
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In-reply-to: ap713@yfn.ysu.edu's message of 7 Oct 1993 17:40:25 GMT
You might want to wait. Juki Virtanen, author of GNU Pascal,
says he's about to merge the GPC code into the GCC code at the
FSF before the end of the year. {Well, he said *soon*, I'm
guessing about the end of the year} If you need a beta copy sooner,
let me know and I'll pass the request on. This is a full-blown
Pascal - he's tested it against the famous Pascal Validation Suite.
It's a new front-end on GCC, so the output code will take advantage
of all of the GCC optimizations and all of the backends, too.
I wouldn't waste my time on Berkeley Pascal at this time. Now
Berkeley lint, I'd be interested in!
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