Re: Freepascal of GNU Pascal?

Dirk Weber wrote:
> 
> which compilerpascal dialect would you advise me to use: Freepascal
> or GNU Pascal?
> 
> At the moment I tend to Freepascal. Mostly because that was the first
> one I found. But the other aspect is that Freepascal seems to be a
> alive projetc whereas the latest GNU Pascal version dates from 2005.
> 
> Please do _not_ start any flame wars about that question, I am not
> really interested such nonsense. What I am really interested in is
> stability of the system and bugs.

GNU Pascal is being steadily updated, but they haven't put out a
'stable' version for some time.  They are all Betas.  I suspect
someone will show up here with links to the various versions
available.  With my anal insistance on ****tability and ISO
standards I would use GNU.

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