Re: [Sheflug] getting pascal running linux?

[Will Newton <nospam [at] misconception.org.uk>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Sammy Redshaw wrote:

> Has anyone got any idea how to get a pascal compiler up and running in
> linux. I've got a big pascal project to finish but can only do it on
> slow machines at college.I am  wondering if there is a  linux compiler
> thats easy to install and look a bit like turbo pascal 7.

For straight Pascal with no bells, whistles or addons of any kind, try
p2c. It converts Pascal into C, and then you can compile it with GCC.
It's probably installed with most distros. There are some free Pascal
implementations, but, mainly due to Pascal being rather outdated (it's
still seen as a good language to teach programming, but no-one uses it,
figure that one out...), they are a little thin on the ground.


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