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ISO 7185 Pascal (p5, p5c) -- public domain (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 09.04.2022, 04:07

> > SubC seems to be maintained again,
> > but DOS support is broken.
>
> It is only broken in the experimental version.
>
> > but otherwise compiles one very simple program of
> > mine. It's very impressive, but
> > SmallerC (BSD, 386+) is
> > much more complete.
>
> Sure. But not public domain. So not what I'm after.

I'm partial to Pascal, even ISO Pascal, even the original, hence my DOS (GPC) build and my usage of P5 (pcom/pint) ISO 7185 bytecode compiler. It, too, is "public domain" (in Pascal itself) like its predecessor (P4). I also appreciate the derivative p5c, which is also "public domain" and translates .PAS to (GCC/Clang) C code.

I also still think about the idea of bootstrapping. While UNIX had many useful utils (diff, ed, grep, sed/awk, as/ld), DOS only had simpler equivalents (fc, edlin, find, gwbasic/qbasic, debug). Obviously with a compiler you can go much further. I never truly learned Forth, but they're the experts on bootstrapping.

 

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