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[kevin lyda]

O'Regan_Conan/Ireland_BH_Computer_Development at beaumont.ie wrote:
> 
>      Hey all..,..
> 
>      i'm new here so be easy with me...i'm just wondering is there anyone
>      out there who uses delphi??? And to those who don't use it why not???
> 
>      sorry!!!
> 
>      i had to ask!

my understanding of delphi is that it's borland's new (as of several
years ago) name for their turbo pascal project.  pascal never really
seemed to take off on unix.  there are a few pascal frontends for g
compiler suite (besides c the gnu compiler supports ada, fortran, java,
and some others) with varying support for different dialects of pascal.

my highschool cs class used turbo pascal 3.x and i had looked into
porting the projects i'd done.  none of the pascal compilers at the time
could do the graphics ones.

modula-3 does have some following in the free software world if you're
keen on niklaus wirth's other languages.  i think cvssup was written in
modula-3 for instance.

in addition borland is talking about releasing their development tools
for linux.  that may or may not include delphi.

kevin
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