Subj : Pascal availability
To   : Andy Ball
From : Jame Clay
Date : Mon Nov 07 2011 06:43 pm

Andy,

> Sadly Pascal seems to be greatly undervalued these days.
> gpc appears to have been left to rot.

   It is, however, available on Debian Linux...


>  There's FreePascal though,

   Also available on Debian.


>  which makes me think
>  I should set up a Linux machine and perhaps buy a book on it.
>  I'm no sure what libraries that would give me access to.

    You mean, associated with the compiler install?   As a for instance, the
following "units" packages are available for Free Pascal on Debian: 
fp-units-fv, fp-units-multimedia, fp-units-gnome1, fp-units-fcl, fp-units-base, 
fp-units-gfx, fp-units-gtk, fp-units-gtk2, fp-units-i386, & fp-units-misc.

    I sometimes think about trying my hand at it again but it's been a _long_
time since I did anything with Pascal...







Jame

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