Subj : RE: Is there anyone there..? knock once for yes, twice for no..!!
To   : Scott Brown
From : sydsrus
Date : Fri Jul 31 2009 03:15 am

On 7/30/2009 12:14 PM, Scott Brown wrote to sydsrus:

->  > Any other takers to help breath some life back into this
conference...  :) 
-> Ok, and I'll even ask a real question..  I'm on a windows XP pro
platform and
-> I have never done any pascal programming. (some C++ and filepro database
-> programming, cobalt, etc..) Is there a free compiler for pascal on windows,
-> and what would be some suggestions of what materials to read to learn
pascal?
-> Thanks,
-> Scott....

Hi Scott,

This one I know..:)  

There is a free pascal compiler and it is called FreePascal (FPK)
www.freepascal.org, it supports numerous OSs, Linux, FreeBSD, Dos, Windows
to name a few.. 

There is also a add on named Lazarus - www.lazarus.freepascal.org - Which
they describe as:

"The class libraries and development environment for Free Pascal that
emulate Delphi"

As for learning material, the FreePascal/Lazarus site has some really good
documentation, programming techniques and a vast community of users, so
maybe a starting point.

Ta
Simon 
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