On Oct 22, 2004, at 9:46 AM, Padu wrote:

> would you trust them for your compiler provider?

Hmm.  I found pascal to be pretty frustrating as a systems-programming
language, and have a hard time imagining that it would be better in an
embedded environment (mind you, we did some neat stuff with Pascal and
assembler combinations...)

I don't know that I'd "trust" ANY single compiler vendor if ongoing 
support
was considered a critical issue.  But then, I don't recall if I've ever
seen the multitude of C compiler vendors specifically mentioned as an
advantage of C as a language.   Nor have I seen mention of a need to
test your code with multiple compilers if you're in "serious" business,
although it's probably a good idea.  :-(   Open source tools certainly
give one a good (if not terribly realistic) feeling that in the worst
case you can always maintain the tools yourself...

I would also think that pascal would need more "embedded extensions"
that might not be compatible between vendors of pascal compilers...

BillW

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