by CBFalconer <cbfalconer@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Apr 24, 2008 at 08:02 PM
Richard Engebretson wrote:
>
> I'm reading Namir Shammas' book "TP6; OOP" and he links Object
> Pascal to the Mac and Wirth's Pascal.
>
> It is fair to say that Borland Turbo Pascal had a rapid
> development from Control Data 1976 to the PC of 1990. I don't
> see any discontinuities.
>
> Free Pascal, derived from Turbo Pascal, is still my tool of
> choice. But I still use 1.0.10 on SuSE Linux 8.1 .
Obviously you can use it. But you should be aware that all of
these do NOT implement real Pascal. There are many petty details
fouled, but the worst are the absence of the f^ buffer, and the put
and get functions in the i/o package. Note that I am NOT
complaining about extensions, but about failure to implement the
minimum standard.
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