Dirk Weber
Arft, 18.02.07

Hi,

which compilerpascal dialect would you advise me to use: Freepascal or
GNU Pascal?

At the moment I tend to Freepascal. Mostly because that was the first
one I found. But the other aspect is that Freepascal seems to be a
alive projetc whereas the latest GNU Pascal version dates from 2005.

Please do _not_ start any flame wars about that question, I am not
really interested such nonsense. What I am really interested in is
stability of the system and bugs.

Greetings from Arft,

Dirk Weber

Dirk Weber wrote:

GNU Pascal is being steadily updated, but they haven't put out a
'stable' version for some time. They are all Betas. I suspect
someone will show up here with links to the various versions
available. With my anal insistance on portability and ISO
standards I would use GNU.

On 2007-02-18, Dirk Weber wrote:

GPC is also still alive (avg 30 mails/month for about the last year) It's
just that they are less clear in their release and public access to sources.
Everything goes via patches and third party people making releases for
specific platforms.

IOW this is just FPC being more centralised and organised.

FPC should be througout stable, with lots of 3 party packages, and an
absolute gigantic Delphi codebase waiting to be ported. This includes four
TCP/IP suites, various generic database support systems, and nowadays even
an commercial component or two (e.g. teechart)

On Feb 18, 5:33 am, dirk-we...@web.de (Dirk Weber) wrote:

Both are VERY good.

CBFalconer is quite right about his concerns. GPC is more standard
Pascal. GPC is directly related to the gnu compiler which is good and
bad. Very good people with GPC.

One thing I like about Freepascal is their internal "name mangling."
It seems to provide better namespaces and scopes, important for large
programs. The FPC2 version takes this even further.

Dirk Weber пишет:

I would advise GNAT to you.

In article registered.motzarella.org>,
Ivan Levashew bluebottle.com> writes:

GNAT isn't a dialect of Pascal, it's Ada.

bill

Bill Gunshannon пишет:

And Ada is Pascal on steroids