Subj : Learning Pascal
To   : Darryl Dunnaway
From : John Guillory
Date : Thu Jul 15 2010 07:42 pm

  Re: Learning Pascal
  By: Darryl Dunnaway to All on Thu Jul 15 2010 03:39 pm

 > I just bought 4 different books on pascal off of Amazon the other day so I
 > could learn this language.  I've been playing around with FreePascal and
 > trying out a few things.  So far it doesn't seem to be all that difficult. 
 > Anyone got any major pointers on what I need to learn to write a few simple
   If you have any kind of programming experience I can probably help you do
   about anything you need to do as long as you stick to either Turbo Pascal
   or Delphi Syntax.  Virtual Pascal preferred as it's my main squeeze.  ;-)
   I've personally got TMT Pascal + 3.x, I used to have Quick Pascal, I have
Stony Brook Pascal+ availablet, but haven't used it in ages. (cool in the dos
days!), various free versions of turbo pascal, free pascal, etc. But if you
want to get technical on ANSI standard pascal, forgetit! I know very little on
the details of that....

 > windows programs?
   If your doing console programs or using the graph unit to do graphics on
   windows, etc. cool.  If your doing the windowproc method, find someone else!
   I've got samples I can dig up for win16, you may find samples in free
   pascal, but beyond that I'm not your person... Not my cup of tea!

> Other than the traditional:
 > program hello;

 > begin
 >   println ('Hello World');
 > end.
 > Thanks!

If you stick to console mode, you can do a lot of powerful things in pascal.
Depending on your flavor of pascal also depends on how well you can interface
with other languages.  If you use Virtual Pascal and use VPSysLow for your main
file i/o stuff, rather than the dos unit, you have added ability to write
programs that are OS/2, Windows, and Linux compatible with a single source
code....

But what are you looking to do?  Good to see some fresh ideas here....
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