TMT Pascal

TMT Pascal is a proprietary 32-bit compiler developed by the American company TMT Development Corporation, and the language is an extended Object Pascal . Initially, TMT Pascal allowed you to create programs for the OS / 2 operating system and 32-bit protected mode MS-DOS . A bit later, developers added the ability to create full-fledged applications for the Win32 platform ^[1] .

TMT Pascal was the first compiler to create 32-bit MS-DOS protected applications using the DPMI service provided by such popular DOS extenders ^{[2] [3]} . In addition, the authors of this compiler for the first time supplemented Pascal with a complete operator overload ^[4] , which was subsequently adopted by developers of other dialects of the language ( Delphi , Free Pascal , etc.). Another addition was the implementation of c-like assignment operations with increment and decrement: “ +:= ” and “ -:= ” ^[4] .

TMT Pascal has its own IDE with syntax highlighting and a multi-level undo (although before the version 4.0 released in 2001, it did not have a debugger ^{[4] [5]} ). Code using graphics for DOS and for Windows gives the same effect and does not require rework. Under DOS, graphics are implemented through VESA , and under Windows through DirectX . Therefore, it is convenient to write programs for the demoscene on it .

It is noteworthy that TMT Pascal was created by Russian programmers - Anton Moskal and Vadim Bodrov. After the release of TMT Pascal 4, the project was resold to a third-party company and renamed to Framework Pascal. The compiler code was then ported from Watcom C to C ++ and the TMT Pascal Multi-target v5.0 compiler version for DOS32, Windows, and Linux platforms was released. In the early 2000s, it was also announced the beginning of work on the TMT .NET project ^[6] .