Pascal complier for TeX

Taylor, P P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk
Wed Jul 17 08:03:54 CEST 2019


Shreevatsa R wrote:

There is no such thing as "the TeX Pascal compiler". When originally written, TeX was designed to work with a variety of Pascal compilers on a variety of systems, by making small "system-dependent" changes in "change files" and keeping the original tex.web unmodified. (Though of course it was written on a particular system with a particular Pascal compiler; what Knuth calls "Pascal-H" in a few places in the TeX program.)

[...] If you [] want to compile with a [] recent Pascal compiler, you have a few options:

See also https://pascal.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_compilers_and_interpreters
Philip Taylor
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