Re: Pascal under ProDOS?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <3C456250.8030702@coli.uni-sb.de>,
Linards Ticmanis  <ticmanis@coli.uni-sb.de> wrote:
 
> Rob Jacox wrote:
> 
>> I am looking for a simple Pascal compiler that runs under ProDOS. I know
>> nothing may be out there, but am not a big fan of ApplePascal's unfriendly
>> environment, and I would like to be able to run my applications from ProDOS.
>> I have searched the internet, and come up empty. Is there any way to easily
>> program an Apple II without using Basic or Apple Pascal?
> 
> I know that this isn't exactly what you're looking for, however if you 
> have a Z80 card (they appear on eBay fairly often) you can run Turbo 
> Pascal 3.01 under CP/M, which might be the best PASCAL that can work on 
> an 8-bit Apple II.
 
IMO this is the major reason to prefer CP/M over Apple DOS, ProDOS or
Apple Pascal: CP/M offers you a superior choice of programming languages.
 
Turbo Pascal wasn't the only Pascal available for CP/M -- there were
at least 4 or so other Pascal's available.  And you had a lot of other
languages as well: Basic (interpreted as well as compiled), Fortran,
Cobol, C, PL/I, ..... etc etc etc.
 
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