On Aug 15, 5:16 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
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.
Indeed, it's an interpreter - hence "Instant" Pascal.
I don't think it's any more of a "toy" than Applesoft is. It would
have been nice had the interpreter component been kept sufficiently
seperate from the IDE that it could have become a platform. I suspect
however, as I hinted in my previous post, that insufficient machine
resources remained to create anything other than fairly simple
programs, so I suppose the it's only useful for producing "toys" - but
nonetheless a superb educational tool considering the limitations of
the platform.