Re: pascal system

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <448091de$0$4494$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net>,
Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@gmx.de> wrote:

> Paul Schlyter wrote:
> 
>> Yes - an implementation of UCSD Pascal was integrated in the Apple Pascal
>> system.  It was a compiler, IDE, OS, file system -- all integrated.
> 
> Actually, if you get your Apple a CP/M card, you might get happier with 
> plain ol' Turbo Pascal. Apple Pascal has been described as less than great.

I know -- I immediately switched to TP when it was released, in the early 80's.

TP was so much faster, both when compiling code and when running the binaries.
Its floating-point arithmetic provided better precision (12 digits compared to
the 7 digits offeret by Apple Pascal -- using Apple Fortran instead was no
better since Apple Fortran didn't implement the DOUBLE PRECISION data type).