Topic by Ethin 2014-08-11 06:13:09

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Hi all,
I'm curious if any of you know of a book that teaches Pascal (the pascal programming language!) I'd be pleased if the book or books that you find are on bookshare.org (
http://www.bookshare.org
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Thank you.

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Reply by Sebby 2014-08-12 12:44:05

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I bought the Coronado tutorial on Pascal, just for the hell of it. Ada too, as it's a blood relation. Freepascal also comes with a fairly comprehensive reference book; accessible.

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Reply by Ethin 2014-08-13 01:05:30

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How much does the Coronado tutorial on Pascal cost, cebi?

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Reply by Sebby 2014-08-13 07:53:22

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It's available here for purchase for $15. It's an oldie, though, so be prepared for references to dialects and extensions no longer in use, specially Turbo Pascal. Once you know the language well enough, you'll find the FreePascal documentation to be very useful.

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Reply by Ethin 2014-08-14 21:56:33

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Actually, FPcC (the free pascal compiler) supports turbo pascal with the -Mtp command line option, or the {$mode tp} compiler directive.

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!]: 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out ?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."    — Charles Babbage.
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Reply by Sebby 2014-08-15 00:14:01 (edited by Sebby 2014-08-15 01:24:11)

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Well, there you are, then. Does it also support Object Pascal? I forget ...

Pascal didn't survive, for whatever reason. pas2c became one of my favourite tools. My favourite pascal program was MyMUD, a MUD that used files for computer-computer communication across a LAN running Novell or LANtastic or other software of that era.

Edit: answered my own question, it apparently does. Great stuff.

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