Open/Closed Status
The author of Pascaline the language has stated that the there is no wish to have it remain as a proprietary language. IP Pascal is sold as implementation of Pascaline, but the language itself can and should be open, and have quality implementations.
To that end, the full specification for Pascaline will be published online, and the long term intention is to create a version of the open source P5 compiler/interpreter (an ISO 7185 version of Wirth's P4 compiler/interpreter) which implements Pascaline compliance. This will be known as the P6 compiler, and it will also be openly published and distributed.
The value of IP Pascal as a commercial product will be based on the IDE and compiler/encoder resources of that system.
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