Re: Cocoa and ... Pascal!!!
Re: Cocoa and ... Pascal!!!
- Subject: Re: Cocoa and ... Pascal!!!
- From: David Sinclair <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 12:56:05 -0800
On Friday, Dec 6, 2002, at 20:05 US/Pacific, Philip George wrote:
I went to the Metrowerks website looking to buy the latest version of
Code Warrior and it doesn't say anything about having a Pascal
compiler, which is weird because I just downloaded Apple's Universal
Interfaces (ASM and Pascal Carbon Interfaces) and it has a README file
specifically for Code Warrior users about how to get UI to work in CW.
Also there are several software packages which were made with Pascal
for OS X ("Kids GoGoGo" and "Bookends" for example). I might write to
them and ask what tools they used. Maybe they developed in OS 9 and
tested periodically in OS X? I just know that I really miss writing
code in Pascal. I think it's very easy on the eyes--almost reads like
a good book. Obj-C is a really pretty language too, but in a
different way I guess.
Perhaps I can help clarify the situation for you.
There are two components: the IDE and the compiler, i.e. the
environment you use to develop, and the environment your apps run in.
Metrowerks first Carbonized their IDE, then later produced a complier
that could build Carbon apps. The Carbonized IDE is still available,
as it is used for C development too. But the Pascal compiler was
designed to be the end of the line; after that was released, they
dropped Pascal support.
I believe that if you buy CodeWarrior from them and ask for the Pascal
complier, they will provide it to you at no extra cost -- but you have
to explicitly ask for it. And you're taking on a risk -- if there are
any bugs in the complier (which there are), they will likely not be
fixed, so you'd have to work around them.
Personally, I've programmed professionally in Pascal for many years,
and still maintain legacy Pascal code, but I much prefer Objective-C
and Cocoa. I used to dislike C and C++, but ObjC is much cleaner. And
I certainly don't miss some of the inconvenient aspects of Pascal. I
stuck with Pascal when C was taking over the Mac world, but ObjC is a
worthy replacement. I would encourage you to forget about Pascal and
enjoy ObjC.
--
David Sinclair, Dejal Systems, LLC - email@hidden
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