[Info-vax] First ship poll: When will the first native x86-64 compilers ship ?

Chris Townley news at cct-net.co.uk
Thu Apr 14 05:11:50 EDT 2022


On 14/04/2022 09:27, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-04-14 at 00:24 -0400, Dave Froble wrote:
> [snip]
>>>>> You forgot Pascal!
>>>>>
>>>>> Booo........
>>>>>
> [snip]
>>>> Hey, it's John, Pascal is probably already working ...
> [snip]
>>> I have not tried to build a native Pascal yet.  Perhaps I should
>>> just to screw with the estimates, eh?
>>
>> That would be fun ..
> 
> Yes, I believe Pascal's one of the easiest languages to build a
> compiler for. TurboPascal was fantastic for what it did back in its
> day.

The modern day Free Pascal (www.freepascal.org) is pretty good, 
especially with Lazarus, Developed as a superset of Delphi

-- 
Chris



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