David Schmenk wrote:
mdj wrote:Yes, too bad. I had high hopes for this environment. It was quite a sophisticated IDE except that it had no linker or programmatic window resize control. I think it was killed by marketing who forced it to be a toy and have the Mac version be the tool. The manual even says to create a real program you have to copy the source code over to the Apple Pascal environment and recompile. Sheesh. So close.On Aug 14, 4:03 pm, PZ <skierp...@yahoo.com> wrote:As I recall, Instant Pascal was impressive, but didn't offer a compiler on the GS, only the Mac version offered compilation I believe. Instant Pascal was intended more for an educational environment, and to groom people for programming on the Mac.Instant Pascal was 128k IIe/IIc ... It was quite a feat on such hardware - the problem was always that it implied a platform that didn't really exist, insofar that the underlying functionality of Instant Pascal was only sufficient to support itself, and not general purpose applications. I've always admired applications of this ilk, which gave you an idea of what *could* be done, if only you had just a little more.... Matt
What is the underlying implementation? Is is Apple Pascal-compatible p-code, or is it something unique to Instant Pascal? Perhaps some hacking could be done. ;-) I always regarded it as a toy, and suspected it of using a more "tokenized source" approach, like Applesoft. -michael NadaNet file server for Apple II computers! Home page: http://members.aol.com/MJMahon/ "The wastebasket is our most important design tool--and it's seriously underused."