Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!ames!mailrus!husc6!bbn!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!f.gp.cs.cmu.edu!dtw From: dtw@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Duane Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: TML Pascal II Keywords: TML PASCAL MPW Message-ID: <2233@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Jul 88 17:12:10 GMT References: <6658@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> Sender: netnews@pt.cs.cmu.edu Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 29 > I just received a letter from TMP Systems describing TML Pascal II and TML > Source Code Library II. > I was pleased with TMLP and wouldn't mind spending $50 for the upgrade, > which includes MPW v2.0.2 (That alone is worth the price of the upgrade. The previous version of TML Pascal claimed to support object programming, but, so far as I could tell, it didn't really work. It was buggy, and the compiler was documented as missing some features crucial for Apple Object Pascal compatibility; it was never upgraded. It seems that TML got interested in the Apple IIgs and effectively abandoned Mac TML Pascal users. Now, after a VERY long time, they come out with an "upgrade", but it looks like a very different thing. I wonder whether they will support this any better than the previous product. Is there any reason, apart from cost, to purchase TML Pascal, rather than to simply purchase MPW and MPW Pascal, products which we know are going to be well supported, products which we know will keep up with new Mac changes and which are certain to work with Apple's upcoming debugger? My guess is that TML will discover that there's not much of a market for a Pascal compiler that competes with Apple's Object Pascal compiler in the MPW environment. -- uucp: ...!seismo!cmucspt!me.ri.cmu.edu!dtw arpa: dtw@cs.cmu.edu