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Pascal and Delphi
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Pascal was originally developed as a teaching language by Niklaus Wirth
in the late 1960s. It has influenced the design of many later languages
and is still in widespread use, although different implementations tend
to incorporate incompatible extensions to overcome language limitations.
Borland's Delphi is based on an object-oriented extension of Pascal, and
is similar to Visual Basic.
Like Visual Basic it is a commercial product, so there is no compiler
available on this CD. Unlike Visual Basic, it does not generate interpretive
code which requires a DLL interpreter module. Instead, it generates small
stand-alone executable files which execute much faster than an equivalent
Visual Basic program would.
| TMT Pascal,
a free 32-bit Pascal compiler for DOS on 386 and later processors
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| FPK Pascal,
a free Pascal compiler for 386 and later processors, including source
code for the compiler (in Pascal of course!)
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| Mystic Pascal,
a shareware Pascal compiler
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| Visible Pascal,
another shareware Pascal compiler
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| SURPAS,
yet another shareware Pascal compiler
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