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

[Polymorph <polymorph69@hotmail.com>]

On Apr 24, 9:54 am, PZ <skierp...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 23, 5:46 pm, A2Aviator <a2avia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Based on the individuals involved, and the knowledge I already have on
> > the subject,  I'm good with the posts already.
>
> > I have some more materials to add as well. I just need to do manual
> > databased edits to add categories because the way that thing is, they
> > are numbered in order they are added, not alphabetically. So when
> > inserting a category, it renumbers them all. :)
>
> A copy of the email has been forwarded to you for record keeping as
> well.
>
> Thanks Tony.
> - Paul

I sent Vince another email last night thanking him for releasing the
program, and also asking if he had any other materials that he might
release - e.g. CP reference manuals, example Pascal source code, or
the source code to Complete Pascal itself. I will advise when I hear
back from Vince as to the outcome.

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.  :-)

I will be updating my website back to its former state in the next
couple of days. There might even be some additions on the
horizon...  ;-)

Cheers,
Mike