From: dak@hathi.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (David Kastrup) Subject: Re: Choosing a Unix like OS for a pc Date: 29 Jun 1993 06:07:37 GMT
iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>minor oddities and a more limited mmap() than say SunOS at the moment. Loads
>of people here do a lot of work with Linux. In fact the only thing holding
>back students running Linux here is the 1st year, and a few second year
>courses that use pascal (ugh). Everything else (prolog,ml,C,C++..) is
>available.
Well, look closely. There is p2c, a pascal to C converter that does a
reasonable job. Reasonable enough for matters not explicitly version-
dependent, although some constructs of Turbo Pascal can be even emulated
as well. Admitted, it is not as interactive as the Borland products,
but it works.
-- David Kastrup dak@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de Tel: +49-241-72419 Fax: +49-241-79502 Goethestr. 20, W-5100 Aachen, Germany