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Pascal on Mac
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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The original language of choice, now totally dead? Since Metrowerks dropped it from CodeWarrior, my only hope, Borland's Kylix (Delphi for Linux). They haven't committed to OS X yet (although they did with their JBuilder product).
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Sadly, pascal is dead. Sorry.
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There are probably open-source Unix Pascal compilers that could be ported to OS X (most non-GUI Unix software ports relatively easily.) That won't get you integration with ProjectBuilder, though, and you'd have to translate all the Carbon header files into Pascal format if you wanted to write any GUI apps.
Personally, I gave up on Pascal 11 years ago. It was nicer than 1970s-era K&R C, but ANSI C fixed most of that...
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Pascal is not dead.
Metrowerks is re-introducing pascal support into CodeWarrior.
You can currently compile carbonized Pascal apps. Follow instructions found at http://www.pascal-central.com
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Thanks for the link strobe, so there is hope. It doesn't say exactly when this CodeWarrior will be released though.
"Metrowerks has announced that work has begun on the final update for CodeWarrior Pascal which should streamline the process of carbonizing your Pascal programs, but there is no clear picture yet as to exactly what will be released."
Don't know why they dropped it in the first place, oh yes, because Apple did first 
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Maybe you'll didn't realize, but this update is only being released to appease pascal fanatics. There are no plans for updating this product in the future or for releasing a version of the standard codewarrior with support for pacal. I like pascal but I feel it is time for the world to move on to better object oriented technologies. Objective Pascal came out about 12 years ago around the same time as Objective C but did not gain andy steam. Pascal was supposed to replace BASIC but in the end Microsoft created Visual Basic which kept BASIC going, and ANSI C killed Pascal. In fact even True Basic today created by the original developers of BASIC has a strong users group.
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Join Date: Jun 2000
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If anyone writes some libraries that can map Pascal to the cocoa APIs tell me about it because my high school taught Pascal (in DOS and then for a bit on Windows through Delphi) so it is my most comfortable language yet nobody uses it anymore. True that Java is more portable and any offshoot of C is more powerful but I liked the way that Pascal worked and Delphi was simple and effective. It would be a great learning tool if someone could do this but I don't know enough about API linking to even know how it could be done.
Good luck,
Jeff.
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Bridging object oriented APIs between two languages is extremely difficult. There is an Objective-C to Java bridge that allows Cocoa apps to be written in Java, but it's quite an intricate piece of work. A bridge for Object Pascal would be almost as complex (and yes, this would require Object Pascal and not the regular kind.)
It really isn't that hard to learn new languages. It's time to let go of Pascal...
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