Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-18 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
John Youngquist wrote: Interesting response. I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% faster than C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. The machine is a pick place machine designed to assemble SMT

[fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread John Youngquist
Hi: I have been using FPC for some time now and think it is a great system. I am facing a challenging port of a Borland Pascal 7 program to FPC. It is about 8000 lines long. While most of it is ordinary and will compile easily it uses some features and extensions which I don't know how

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread Jeff Wormsley
John Youngquist wrote: I would like to port the program as is, but eventually get a PCI 48 I/O line card to escape the ISA bus and also talk USB as well. Getting it to run on later versions of Windows might be useful. This program controls a machine on a single purpose computer. Windows is

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread John Youngquist
Interesting response. I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% faster than C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. The machine is a pick place machine designed to assemble SMT circuit boards. It was

Re: [fpc-pascal] Challenging port of Borland Pascal program to FPC

2010-01-17 Thread Florian Klaempfl
John Youngquist schrieb: Interesting response. I routinely implement large systems on the 8051 chip in assembly language which I can write faster than Pascal. Assembly is a minimum of 500% faster than C on the 8051. I hate C anyway. FPC runs also on embedded arm systems so this might be