Re: Permission granted for free distribution of Complete Pascal v2.0 (formerly TML Pascal)

[PZ <skierpaul@yahoo.com>]

On May 14, 7:27 pm, limtc <thyech...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4月24日, 上午8时33分, Polymorph <polymorp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > IMHO, this is another win for the Apple II community. AFAIK this
> > represents the only freely available native development platform for
> > the IIgs with full Toolbox support. In my eyes, something like this
> > can only encourage interest in the platform, and perhaps we might see
> > some new development happening. Although I myself have moved over to
> > the Orca suite of languages, I still rate the CP environment very
> > highly. Its certainly a nice way to "cut your teeth" when first
> > entering the world of IIgs Toolbox programming. It has a very simple
> > interface that lets you concetrate on coding rather than trying to get
> > your head around the development environment. The graphical resource
> > editor (although some bugs were introduced in CP that were not present
> > in TML Pascal II) is a great boost when creating GUI applications. It
> > would be even better if we could obtain the source code for CP and fix
> > those bugs... but I don't want to get too far ahead of myself just
> > yet.  :-)
>
> Agreed completely. Complete Pascal is really the best IDE for the GS.
> Personally I think it is better, more stable and easier to use than
> Orca/Pascal (which seems to design more to mimic Mac UI and ignore the
> fact that GS has 320 and 640 modes). The simplicity of just Apple-M
> and run a full screen app is what amazed me and my son.
>
> I am going to do a video recording of Complete Pascal soon.

That would be awesome!  Let me know when you have it up, and I'll link
to it.

- Paul