Hi,
On 8/1/10, Gert Doering gd@medat.de wrote:
JFTR, we use it to maintain legacy code that has been written 30+ years ago but is still in production use. This is dying off, though, as most of the old ASCII based application is moving to a new Java based GUI.
So while we're extremely happy that GPC is there, and is working on AIX (while IBM's pascal is no longer supported), we expect that our pascal usage will disappear over the next few years. So for us, "maintaining status quo" is sufficient.
Have you tried Canterbury Pascal? It outputs Java, but it's not free in any sense. (Vector Pascal runs on Java but outputs code to compile by GCC natively.) But neither is as good as GPC, obviously.
I'm not at all familiar with or in love with Java (too bulky ... but a GPL version [IcedTea] does exist, seemingly used heavily by Red Hat), but I do like the idea of a converter between languages.
There's also the possibility of using the Parrot VM (partially used by the Perl project). But I don't know if that's stable enough either.