Lisa Pascal Compatibility

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From: David Lassner
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1987 06:03

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A week or so ago I posted a request for info regarding the compatibility
of the Lisa Workshop Pascal with MPW Pascal, specifically interested in
the difficulty of porting a fairly large program (which LightSpeed Pascal
did NOT like) to a native Mac environment.

I got about 20 responses, both posted here in by e-mail.  Some told of
porting as much as 400K lines of software, and without exception,
ALL RESPONDENTS FOUND MPW TO BE HIGHLY COMPATIBLE.  The major problem
(other than changing USE statements and make files) was that Lisa Pascal
did not check for uniqueness of routine names beyond 8 characters, and MPW
does.

Thanks, everyone, for the help!
-- 
David Lassner, University of Hawaii Computing Center, 808/948-7351
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From: david@uhccux.UUCP (David Lassner)
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Subject: Lisa Pascal Compatibility
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Date: Wed, 23-Sep-87 02:03:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 23 02:03:38 1987
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Keywords: Lisa Pascal, MPW Pascal