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In article <26@oresoft.UUCP> daveb@oresoft.UUCP (David Barnes) writes:
>
>We (Oregon Software) recently re-hosted our Pascal-2 compiler for the AT
>and its ilk.  Features include:

   So, just to ensure that USENET remains a "free" forum, and doesn't just
become a commercial quagmire:

>I hope you'll check it out -- we're really proud of this compiler.

   Unless I've got the wrong company, I sure hope it's less buggy than your
RSTS Pascal compiler, and that your support has gotten better.  Students
taking a first course in computer programming were continually running into
bugs in the RSTS Pascal compiler.  Example: trying to use a constant outside
the machine-imposed limits caused the compiler to croak with *NO* diagnostics.
Just a "BOOM!  Fizzle-fizzle...."  Imagine yourself as the poor freshman in
CS, ignorant of compiler construction, facing something like that.
  However, if you've actually written a good compiler, congratulations.  I
have provided support for a Pascal compiler, and I know how complex they can
be.
--
 - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)

The above opinions represent those of myself, and no other.  All experiences
related herein are true, or I at least *dreamed* them...