Subj : Free Pascal
To   : Robert Wolfe
From : Gene Buckle
Date : Tue May 08 2012 07:00 am

 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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