Pascal Compiler ?

[fgphotog]

anyone know of a good free Pascal compiler ?
thanks
Frank

 

[Fran]

I recommend Bloodshed software Dev-Pascal

 

[Ravi]

Thursday, October 16, 2003, 3:47:16 PM, fgphotog wrote:

f> anyone know of a good free Pascal compiler ?

Have you tried these two?:

http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html

http://www.bloodshed.net/devpascal.html

 

[fgphotog]

thanks, it's for a group of high school students to get a taste of
programming

 

[Mark Blain]

I recommend Bloodshed software Dev-Pascal

The fact that Bloodshed maintains a list of other free compilers says a
lot about the kind of folks they are.
http://www.bloodshed.net/compilers/

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| thanks, it's for a group of high school students
| to get a taste of programming

fgphotog ....

Although this isn't Pascal related,
there is a current thread in comp.lang.python
with the subject teaching programming to children
that you may find interesting ....

The following links for a SmallTalk environment
called Squeak also look very interesting
for teaching programming to young ones ....

http://www.squeak.org/
http://www.squeakland.org/

 

[aderoy]

anyone know of a good free Pascal compiler ?
thanks
Frank

www.freepascal.org

Can be found for most platforms (WinXX, Linux, Amiga, QNX etc).
Syntax very close to Borland TurboPascal 7.

 

[fgphotog]

thank you - i'll check it out

-

 

[Cousin Stanley]

| thank you - i'll check it out

fgphotog ....

You're welcome ....

The SmallTalk/Squeak environment seemed so interesting,
to me that I downloaded and installed it myself ....

http://www.squeak.org/
[ download : 11.1 MB ] [ Installed : ~35 MB ]

There is NO hard-core installation,
just Un-Zip and click on the Squeak.exe file
to fire it up ....

There is a LOT of stuff available through the Squeak package
and the gee-whiz factor may be enough to influence young
programmers while they learn to write object oriented
SmallTalk code in the Integrated Development Environment ....

My initial impressions are VERY favorable,
and after seeing the Squeak package,
I wish I had looked at SmallTalk a LONG time ago ....