Subject: Re: Plan to Update GPC
From: "Schneider, Thomas (NIH/NCI) [E]" <schneidt@mail.nih.gov>
Date: 8/14/20 11:46 pm
To: "scott andrew franco" <samiam@moorecad.com>
Cc: "gpc@gnu.de" <gpc@gnu.de>

Scott:

> > FPC certainly qualifies as a cross platform OS, and I believe it
> > runs well on MacOS??
>
> It does run, but because they have a legacy of bells and whistles it
> doesn't comple vanilla Pascal from 1982 (ISO 7185?)
> "

> I'd like some more details on that. I have very extensive testing
> services with Pascal-P5, and FPC passes, or did pass, my ISO 7185
> tests.

It's been a while. For my program to directly access files in the
local diretory I have a script that adds assignments. These are
non-standard as I understand it (that is, they would differ by
differenting operating systems). There were some special compiler
directives. They were incorporating things and maybe the latest
version (which I have not gotten) is easier to compile with. I would
have to dig around to find more details.

> You can also just compile your stuff with Pascal-P5. As mentioned,
> it is perhaps the most rigorous test of ISO 7185 compliance you will
> find today.

I see I have a directory for P4. Apparently I played with it in 2015
according to my notes. This is from my notes [2015 Nov 17]:

> http://homepages.cwi.nl/~steven/pascal/p4c.tar.gz
> Lots of errors. FUBAR.

I also have a directory for p5c ... and we communicated in 2016!
You asked if it would be ok to put copies of my code online (yes).
You mentioned:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pascalp5/

I don't understand the difference between p4 and p5. I see p6
is under development. If I try it, should I use:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/pascalp5/files/pascal-p5_1_3.tar.gz/download

> You sound like a pretty advanced user of ISO 7185 Pascal, we should
> keep in touch.

I'm not particularly 'advanced' - I just have a large legacy of Pascal
programs that I use for understanding a fundamental theory of biology.

> I am at samiam@moorecad.com.

Ok.

Tom

Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D.
Senior Investigator
National Institutes of Health
National Cancer Institute
Center for Cancer Research
RNA Biology Laboratory
Biological Information Theory Group
Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201
schneidt@mail.nih.gov
https://alum.mit.edu/www/toms