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A Graded Set of Pascal Tutorials
A series of "now type this" tutorials introducing Pascal. While
most points raised apply to many Pascals, the tutorials are
written so that they work exactly as presented if you work with
the FREE Pascal compiler and hardware emulator for Control
Plus's Pascalite. The whole package is a modest download and
clean install. Details within the tutorial. Pascal is the
language underlying Delphi and Kylix, so studying these
tutorials will help you get going with those languages, when
you want to move on to programming for Windows or Linux
Interview with a Pascal Architect
This is a candid interview with John Reagan, the Pascal architect for Compaq Pascal for OpenVMS and Tru64 UNIX. John provides some great insight to the art of compiler making which should be of interest to any software developer, regardless of programming language or platform.
Official Pascal Standards
Links to the official ISO Pascal standards, and the on-line versions of the object-oriented Pascal standards and Pascal standards FAQ.
Pascal From the Quality Perspective
Pascal Central's second interview, this interview is with Ron
Drake, a Quality Engineer at Apple Computer. Ron gives a great
perspective on the Pascal programming language, both in terms
of its history and its inherent usefulness as a development
tool
Review: Extended Pascal 3.2
This is a review Prospero Software's Extended Pascal, a 32-bit
Pascal compiler for Windows 98 and Windows NT. Prospero
supports both the unextended Pascal Standard and the Extended
Pascal Standard, and adds a third layer of support for Object
Pascal, exception handling, and the Windows environment. It is
modeled similar to Turbo Pascal, and comes with a rudimentary
IDE for editing, compiling, and linking source code.
Secure Programming
The article describes how to create better programming code.
The article tries to teach what are the three most common programming mistakes, and try to explain how developers can find ways to solve such problems.
The Pascal Programming Language
This article is a review of the Pascal programming language. It
addresses the origin of the language, discusses the
architecture, and talks about the language standards for
unextended Pascal and Extended Pascal. It confronts the major
criticisms of the language, explaining the origin and
inaccuracy of the many myths about Pascal. Finally, it
addresses the Pascal implementations available today, comparing
the different compilers and the different platforms on which
Pascal is currently available.
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