pascal 7.0 any good?

[PROFESSORSPARKIE]

I have turbopascal 5.5 and have been trying to get a complete package of 7.0 fow windows but can't find a copy on amazon.com. I know it isn't being sold as a product anymore I just want a good used copy.

Maybe 5.5 is all I need since I mostly use it to write command line filter programs, but thought the windows support might be worth it.

What is FREEPASCAL like? Would that do as well. I would like to try using it to write server cgi programs, "perl" is mighty good but some of my students could learn pascal faster than "perl".

Any comments from anyone?

 

[Glenn9999]

Free Pascal is what you want to go with. These days, there's just too many problems with Turbo or Borland Pascal, given the more modern hardware to really want to bother with it.

Free Pascal (

http://www.freepascal.org)

basically works like Turbo Pascal (basically because in DOS it's DPMI and not just conventional memory), but will give you some more features and things to play with. Plus, you can find it for about any kind of platform you want. It's command-line (basically) too so it'll fit in on what you described.

If you want to go the Borland route, Delphi is what you want - although the newer stuff seems to be very much a resource hog.

 

[PROFESSORSPARKIE]

What about the LAZARUS program devel environment to go with freepascal. I think it is free also?

THANKS for the feed back, I have always thought pascal got the short end of the stick when people are choosing a language to write in.

 

[lionelhill]

For what it's worth, I've used Turbo pascal 6.0 on a range of systems up to new-about-a-year-ago, and never hit any hardware related problem on any of them. Frankly I've never had a software problem either. Turbo pascal works; some programs (indifferently) written in turbo pascal don't, but Borland aren't responsible for that. Lots of win3.1 programs don't work either. The only problem I'm aware of is the famous crt-unit overflow (on very fast systems), but even that doesn't seem to happen on machines where it really ought to... But I can't comment much on crt since it's a unit I rarely use.

If you want windows support, the other option is to go microsoft and look at their "Express" range, if you don't mind a C-flavour instead of a pascal-flavour.