Old Pascal

[W. eWatson]

I last used Borland Pascal in around 1997. Does it still exit, and where
does one find it?

[Marco van de Voort]

Post by W. eWatson
I last used Borland Pascal in around 1997. Does it still exit, and where
does one find it?

It never was made available freely. Roughly you have three legal options

- use one of the older Turbo Pascals (4, 5.5) that are free. (google)
- buy BP7 from some vendor like http://www.emsps.com/oldtools/borpas.htm
- Use a clone like Free Pascal; http://www.freepascal.org

The latter choice will force you to fix your code though (mostly 16-bitism),
but has the advantage that it also compiles for non-dos targets.

[Ivan Levashew]

Post by Marco van de Voort
- Use a clone like Free Pascal; http://www.freepascal.org
The latter choice will force you to fix your code though (mostly 16-bitism),
but has the advantage that it also compiles for non-dos targets.

or a descendant like Ada https://libre.adacore.com/
You might use http://p2ada.sourceforge.net/ on your code to get it
automatically translated. Ada has advantages like RAII, generics,
built-in multitasking.

A minor advantages are that Ada has GTK2 bindings (Lazarus is GTK1) and
Qt bindings.

[Marco van de Voort]

Post by Ivan Levashew

Post by Marco van de Voort
- Use a clone like Free Pascal; http://www.freepascal.org
The latter choice will force you to fix your code though (mostly 16-bitism),
but has the advantage that it also compiles for non-dos targets.

or a descendant like Ada https://libre.adacore.com/
You might use http://p2ada.sourceforge.net/ on your code to get it
automatically translated. Ada has advantages like RAII, generics,
built-in multitasking.

FPC has generics, support for TLS (rest of multithreading is library).
Afaik ADA's built-in multitasking is of the cooperative multithreading which
IMHO is something specialistic for embedded use.

Post by Ivan Levashew
A minor advantages are that Ada has GTK2 bindings (Lazarus is GTK1) and
Qt bindings.

FPC has all three, and Lazarus supports all three, and more (win32, win64,
wince, Carbon). The next release of Lazarus will be GTK2 default.

[Ivan Levashew]

Post by Marco van de Voort
FPC has generics, support for TLS (rest of multithreading is library).
Afaik ADA's built-in multitasking is of the cooperative multithreading which
IMHO is something specialistic for embedded use.

No, it's about either barebone or fallback implementations. Tasks are
mapped to threads by default.

[skynet news]

Borland has made TP and even Delphi free for download . Go to
http://dn.codegear.com/article/20803.
You will have to register there.
I came to download TP5.5 a few days ago.

Best regards

W. Coelus

Post by W. eWatson
I last used Borland Pascal in around 1997. Does it still exit, and where
does one find it?
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