PCQ and Sozobon c
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I've just obtained two PD compilers, PCQ (Pascal) by Dennis Quaid
and Sozobon C by Johann Ruegg (modified by Joe Montgomery). I have only
the most fundamental knowledge of either language. The "beginning" type
examples of pascal source that I have almost all include real variable
types. Unfortunately, PCQ doesn't support them yet. The examples included
with the archive are probably outstanding for someone versed in Pascal, but
I'm afraid I'm a little overwhelmed. Also, I didn't see any READ statements
in these examples; how does one input from the keyboard? I need some EASY
source to help me to get the hang of it. I need code that works well with
PCQ. I'm OK with BASIC, so at least I have some sense of programming. I'm
also weak as far as addresses, libraries and machine specific things. Can
someone direct me to docfiles and/or novice source code?
Oh yeah, I'm also looking for anything on XLisp and AmigaIcon (I'm sure
some of you know where I've been shopping by now).
Thnx Lots,
Steve
Shop your local bookstore for any tutorial books on C, I seem to recall one
that was written especially for people making the transition from Pascal to
C. Something like "C for Pascal Programmers", it was called. To answer
one of your questions, a C program always has several files open at once,
one of them is called "stdout", another is "stdin", and you can use
functions such as gets() to read characters from the keyboard, although
such lines need to be terminated by a newline, which shouldn't seem unusual
to a Pascal programmer. the libraries here are full of example code in C.
Take it slow, there's a lot to learn just in C itself, much less learning
to program the Amiga.
Steve,
The best book on Icon is called "The Icon Programing Language", by
Griswold and Griswold.
-larry