COMPAS: compatible Pascal
W Braunschober · ACM SIGPLAN Notices · 1987
HPixisstrasse 2 8000 Muenchen 80 -West German y 1 .Introductio nThere are several methods to develop Pascal code for differen t machines .1 .1For very small projects, (up to a few thousand lines of code), i t is best only to use the definitions of N .Wirt h 1 .2For small projects, a technique is described in SIGPLAN Notices , V21 #1, January 198 6 "A Technique for Automatically Porting Dialects of Pascal to Eac h Other" (usage of pseudocornments to select the dialect ) With this method the knowledge about different Pascal dialects i s multiply repeated all over the code, which makes maintenance an d implementation of new targets a troublsome duty .