Re: Pascal for IIgs...

[Charles Stephens <devnull@dobbs.eng.sun.com>]

>>>>> "BV" == Brian Vito <brian@innobyte.com> writes:

 BV> I am looking for disk images of a version of pascal that will run
 BV> on the IIgs.  I tried a copy that I found on the internet but Gus
 BV> wouldn't load the image, so I'm guessing that it was too old for
 BV> a IIgs anyway.  A disk image of the one and only 3.5" floppy that
 BV> Apple Pascal 1.3 came on would be great.  (I know that the Byte
 BV> Works still sells this for $69, but I can't afford that to simply
 BV> learn how to program a little pascal so that I'm ready when I get
 BV> a Lisa. -- plus, does APDA really still sell this or has the Byte
 BV> Works just not recently updated their web site?).  Thanks.

Pascal, while a good teaching language, is horrible.  I don't know of
anyone knocking down doors for Pascal programmers.

C is your best bet in the job world, with Java a close runner up, if
not a tie these days.

Does anyone want a JVM for GS/OS?

cfs
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