Jack Smith wrote:
> Bob Axtell wrote:
>   
>> I came across Mikro Pascal (it has C as well). Anybody using it?
>> I read the manual last night, and I was very impressed. Its only
>> $125 for the pro version.
>>
>> --Bob
>>   
>>     
>
> Bob:
>
> I purchased the Pascal compiler late last year and tried to make it play 
> with my 18F4620-based Z90 panadapter project 
> (www.cliftonlaboratories.com) and abandoned it because it was too buggy 
> to use. I love Pascal and had great hopes for the compiler, but the 
> Mikro folks seemed too focused on new features and not enough on fixing 
> serious bugs in the current releases.
>
> I have not downloaded an update for it in some months, so perhaps some 
> of the worst bugs have been sorted out.
>   
Thanks so much for the note.

--Bob

> I instead wrote the code in Mecanique's BASIC compiler, Swordfish. (This 
> is not your grandfather's BASIC, it's really an excellent product with 
> about all the bells and whistles one could want.) I found that  
> Swordfish (a) produces faster and smaller code than Mikro Pascal did in 
> my head-to-head comparisons and (b) even when I was alpha testing 
> Swordfish, it was at least as stable (better, actually) than the 
> supposed 5th series commercial release version of Mikro Pascal. 
> Swordfish info at http://www.sfcompiler.co.uk/swordfish/
>
> [My original idea was to parallel develop Swordfish and Mikro Pascal 
> versions of the code, as a backup in the event that Swordfish had 
> problems, as at that point it was only an early alpha test release. 
> After several weeks of parallel development, I found that the Swordfish 
> compiled code consistently worked, or if it it didn't, the bug was fixed 
> within a day or two, and that the supposed stable commercial Pascal 
> compiler was seriously broken and that it was not being fixed. Hence, I 
> dumped the Pascal plans and went 100% Swordfish, which turns out to have 
> been an excellent decision.]
>
> Usual disclaimer -- my relationship with Swordfish's developer is that 
> I've been an alpha and beta tester of the Swordfish compiler and have 
> been highly impressed with what I've seen. No financial links, etc.
>
> Jack
>   

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