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Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Does anyone know good, FREE Pascal compilers, preferably ones that work well with Windows (XP SP2?), with nice interfaces, that show language words (aka "begin", "while", et cetera), and that actually work after you install them.

Because borland's TP7 and TPW drive me freaking nuts. They can't do anything! Not even Cut, Copy and Paste!

Yeah, I know it sucks - we're doing PASCAL at school. But at least not Cobol.

Jonny

Posted by TrapperKeeper (Member # 7680) on :

Try putting this in the other forum

Posted by Papa Janitor (Member # 7795) on :

Good idea, TK. <Moves thread.>

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Thanks.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

I'm pretty sure that you can get one with cywgin.

*goes to check*

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Huh. It doesn't appear to be.

I did find these, however:
http://www.freepascal.org/faq.html#WhatIsFP
http://www.bloodshed.net/compilers/

Posted by Primal Curve (Member # 3587) on :

Why would you want to compile PASCAL?

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

For a high school computer science course?

At least, that's the only reason why I've ever used pascal.

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Yup. That's the reason... It kind of sucks, but I've done JavaScript last year, wasn't too bad (though I got lost in arrays).

I doubt I'll ever programme beyond what I do this year.

Thanks, though!
Jonny

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

Jon, you're alive!

Posted by Fahim (Member # 5482) on :

And while you're checking out Free Pascal, checkout the Lazarus project as well since they have a pretty good IDE for Free Pascal [Smile]