Comments on: For the love of Pascal

By: Sven

Sven — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:15:03 +0000

Hi!

I've just stumpled across your blog and it's very intresting to read.

I'm a developer who's still using Pascal, but not Turbo Pascal (though I started with version 6 and 7 some years ago). Instead I'm using the free and open source Free Pascal which provides a Turbo Pascal compatible language mode (I prefer to use the more modern dialects of FPC though).

Unlike TP it's a multiplatform crosscompiler. It supports the CPU families i386, x86_64, ARM, PowerPC, PowerPC64 and MIPS, operating systems like Win32, Win64, WinCE, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS, Mac OS X, OS/2, DOS (using the go32v2 extender) and more exotic targets like Nintendo DS, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo Wii and embedded systems for the CPUs. Also it provides an IDE that resembles the Turbo Pascal IDE somewhat.

Reading your blog it seems that I need to take a look at a non-i386 Windows NT myself and check whether I can port FPC there ;)

Regards,
Sven

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 13:47:46 +0000

There are however CRT replacements that address this problem.
One is located at http://www.pedt.demon.co.uk/crt/

Or you could switch to LCD 😛

By: mjk

mjk — Sat, 15 Jan 2011 20:33:36 +0000

Turbo Pascal is still an awesome programming environment in many ways. It's only real problem is that the CRT unit doesn't like fast computers, so anything that's compiled using it will crash on a fast computer. Thankfully, most people would probably be running TP under Dosbox these days, which means that the "system speed" is mainly a user-controlled value 🙂