Subj : After Basic
To : Andy Ball
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Dec 01 2012 07:56 pm
JJ> I enjoyed Pascal after I moved on from Basic many
> years ago. I look at it now and wonder why I just
> didn't jump into C or C++. The more I understood
> Pascal, the more I learned about C++. So I guess it's
> practically to experiment the space shuttle first
> before flying to the moon.
AB> I prefer Pascal to C but I've been trying to force
AB> myself to learn C because it's easier to find documentation and
AB> supported compilers for C. Pascal feels cleaner though, for
AB> application programming at least.
you really should take a look at free pascal, then... it is multi-platform and
multi-OS... granted, not everything is the same across the multi parts but most
of it is... it is also still in development as is the separate Lazarus RAD
environment... i participate in the mailing lists for both and only rarely ever
go to the forums for them... plus there's a newsgroup or two where they are
also discussed and supported...
