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    From Norman King to All on Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:56:26
    Anyone used Free Pascal yet?

    http://www.freepascal.org/

    It seems to be a good free and open source Pascal language. Even does some of the old Turbo Pascal language in it. Just object support is limited. Should be good for learning Pascal and it is cross platform.
  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Norman King on Saturday, May 05, 2012 07:48:04
    Anyone used Free Pascal yet?

    http://www.freepascal.org/

    It seems to be a good free and open source Pascal language. Even does some of
    the old Turbo Pascal language in it. Just object support is limited. Should be
    good for learning Pascal and it is cross platform.

    Tons of people have been using it for years :) AFAIK, there are even some BBS programs that have been "on the market" that were written using it nad those have been around for years, too, so this is really nothing now :)

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  • From Gene Buckle@1:138/142 to Robert Wolfe on Tuesday, May 08, 2012 07:00:33
    Re: Free Pascal
    By: Robert Wolfe to Norman King on Sat May 05 2012 07:48 am

    Anyone used Free Pascal yet?

    http://www.freepascal.org/

    It seems to be a good free and open source Pascal language. Even does some
    the old Turbo Pascal language in it. Just object support is limited. Should
    good for learning Pascal and it is cross platform.

    Tons of people have been using it for years :) AFAIK, there are even some B programs that have been "on the market" that were written using it nad those have been around for years, too, so this is really nothing now :)


    Free Pascal is 100% Turbo Pascal compatible and if their Delphi compatability isn't 100%, it's damn close. They also support a number of different CPUs beyond x86.

    g.

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  • From Robert Wolfe@1:261/20 to Gene Buckle on Tuesday, May 08, 2012 13:09:12
    Tons of people have been using it for years :) AFAIK, there are even some B >> programs that have been "on the market" that were written using it nad those >> have been around for years, too, so this is really nothing now :)

    Free Pascal is 100% Turbo Pascal compatible and if their Delphi compatability isn't 100%, it's damn close. They also support a number of different CPUs beyond x86.

    I know, I use it off and on here myself alongside Delphi 7. Have been for years (started using the OS/2 version of it when it was first available).

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Norman King on Wednesday, May 09, 2012 17:14:41

    Anyone used Free Pascal yet?

    yup... i do old style coding with it and then am also working on learning new style GUI stuffs using the Lazarus RAD frontend for FPC ;)

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