PC Programming Language

Aug 12, 2006 24 Replies

In article , Joe G (Home) writes

Delphi is far more widely used than Pascal.

YEs. Probably the Borland/Inprise web site. It was given away free on the covers on magazines in the UK 4 or 5 years ago.

Regards Chris

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VB2005 Express is also available for free

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It also includes a serial port driver, although the serial port is little limited and takes quite a bit of understanding. Watch for m article on using the serial port in VB2005 Express slated to appear i Circuit Cellar late this year. (I am still waitinng for the issue it ha been assigned to).

You probably should look closely at the debug support, there are a lot of languages out there - compilers are common, good IDE+Debug is less common.

See the other comments on 'free Delphi' variants, due next month.

Also, this XDS package has recently gone 'free download',

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This compiles Oberon/Modula-2 Pascal derivatives, for Win and Linux

-jg

Have a look at

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free trial or pay ($49.95) for a version that will produce standalone progs

Alan

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Search or browse for that IC, capacitor, crystal or other component you need.

Thanks for your comments David.

I got a magazine version of Dephi 2005 and it was ver confusing.

Joe

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