NEWS FOR 2025-12-21

[samiam95124]

NEWS FOR 2025-12-21

1. Still working towards version 0.4.
2. Bugs/issues reached a new high at 71 (not sure this is good news).
3. PC compiler integrator is operational.
4. First external compiled modules resident.

The strings module was compiled in Pascaline. In addition, the parse module was created, but that is not a Pascaline standard module.

The first external module, services, was created. However, the linkage for that was (IMHO) too expensive, and I decided to hold off on the other external modules until C external interface gets improved. This also holds off on the planned version 0.4 release, mainly because I don't want to unleash a big change to the documentation twice.

The plan for 0.4 is to make C integration as smooth as possible, meaning that in the majority of cases, just writing a function description in Pascaline is sufficient to do the interface work. That, along with ch2ph, will open up the world of C to Pascal-P6, and thus the rest of the programming world, since most interfaces are designed in C or around C.

So wishing everyone a merry Christmas and a happy new year!