Pascal Machines

[Hunter100]

Hello All,

I heard Pascal is for mainframes not PC's. Just want to verify.

Thanks

[alienkinetics]

Borland Delphi is the most dominate Pascal for the PC. There is also FreePascal and you can get a version of Turbo Pascal for free from Borland.

Borland Kylix (Delphi for Linux), while a product hiatus, comes with a very good pascal compilier that can be used for linux coding. The Kylix IDE is a little dodgy because its a version of Delphi V5 running in Wine, but the resulting binaries are Wine independant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kylix_(software)

I prefer Delphi over other RAD systems, but it seems to be loosing support quickly which is very sad.

Not many people know C++Builder also compilies Pascal. Again this was marketing gone bad (IMHO). C++Builder compilies Delphi code but prevents you from editing the forms. I think Borland would have been better off just adding C++ support to Delphi. Instead they dropped Borland C++ (which p'ed a lot of people off) and then created a buggy C++Builder v1.

But, I guess they decided they could make more money. But, they went under anyway.

Go figure.

[WingedPanther]

Pascal is for any computer. I learned it on 8088 PC's in the late 80's.