Subj : After Basic To : Andy Ball From : mark lewis Date : Sat Dec 01 2012 19:56:12 JJ> I enjoyed Pascal after I moved on from Basic many > years ago. I look at it now and wonder why I just > didn't jump into C or C++. The more I understood > Pascal, the more I learned about C++. So I guess it's > practically to experiment the space shuttle first > before flying to the moon. AB> I prefer Pascal to C but I've been trying to force AB> myself to learn C because it's easier to find documentation and AB> supported compilers for C. Pascal feels cleaner though, for AB> application programming at least. you really should take a look at free pascal, then... it is multi-platform and multi-OS... granted, not everything is the same across the multi parts but most of it is... it is also still in development as is the separate Lazarus RAD environment... i participate in the mailing lists for both and only rarely ever go to the forums for them... plus there's a newsgroup or two where they are also discussed and supported... )\/(ark --- * Origin: (1:3634/12.42) .