LYCOS RETRIEVER
Pascal (Language): Borland Pascal
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Turbo Pascal was the dominant Pascal compiler for PCs during the 80s and early 90s, popular both because of its powerful extensions and extremely low compilation times. Turbo Pascal was compactly written and could compile, run, and debug all from memory without accessing disk. Slow floppy disk drives were common for programmers at the time, further magnifying Turbo Pascal's speed advantage. Currently, older versions of Turbo Pascal (up to 5.5) are available for free download from Borland's site.
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Containers Library v1.01 A data management system for Borland Pascal that allows you to quickly incorporate data structuring capabilities into your applications. It consists of a large set of reusable data structures that range from dynamic arrays to B+ trees. All code is linked to the executable file so there is no run-time software to distribute. BitSoft Development, L.L.C. - $29/$49
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In the decades since then, Pascal has continued to evolve and most of Kernighan's points do not apply to current implementations. Unfortunately, just as Kernighan predicted in his article, most of the extensions to fix these issues were incompatible from compiler to compiler. In the last decade... the varieties seem to have condensed into two categories, ISO and Borland like, a better eventual outcome than Kernighan foresaw.
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This work provides an introduction to programming with Pascal and extends this to show how Borland Delphi is used to develop Microsoft Windows programs. It provides real life applications and splits into three main sections: Pascal programming, Pascal applications, and Delphi programming. Practical applications include: software interrupts, hardware interrupts, graphics, date and time, system commands, RS 232 and parallel ports. This work is intended for GNVQ, A Level, further and adult education, first year undergraduate students, and for professionals and computing enthusiasts.
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On the large machines (mainframes and minicomputers) Pascal originated on, the standards were generally followed. On the IBM-PC, they were not. On IBM-PCs, the Borland standards Turbo Pascal and Delphi have the greatest number of users. Thus, it is typically important to understand whether a particular implementation corresponds to the original Pascal language, or a Borland dialect of it.
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This is a Pascal compiler that generates native code for a number of platforms (such as Win32, MSDOS, Linux, OS/2, Amiga OS). It supports most of the Borland Pascal 7.0 dialect along with some extensions used by Delphi. According to the home page, it ... supports function overloading and other such features. The package comes with sources for the compiler, which is itself written in Pascal. According to the program's website, the program comes under a "modified" GNU Public License to allow linking with static libraries when creating DOS programs. You have to read the documentation yourself to find out whether you can actually produce commercial programs without releasing your program source code.
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