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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= on 27 Jan 2010 12:56 Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > About 20 years ago, I liked to program in Pascal because it imposed a > degree of discipline that I would otherwise not had. Since retirement, > my needs for programming have been satisfied by using Excel. Lately > however, I find the need for something a bit more heavy duty to > manipulate strings. My thoughts ran to Pascal, but BASIC would be OK as > well. > > My problem is that I want a vanilla version without all the versatility > and features that seem to pervade software. Borland Pascal was good. You > could type and run. UCSD Pascal on the Apple ][ was good. You typed your > file and then could run. > > Now it seems much more complicated. I wanted to use Lightweight IDE, but > found out that you also needed FPC and Xcode. all with poor > instructions. That is why I am considering BASIC again even with its > built-in lures to produce spaghetti code. > > What would people here recommend that allow simple data manipulations > but not require much integration of software from multiple sources? You can run GNU Pascal on your Mac. It is a kind of Borland Pascal and it is a free download: <http://www.gnu-pascal.de/gpc/h-index.html> You can download it for Mac here: <http://www.microbizz.nl/gpc.html> with binaries for Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard. And integration kit for Apple's XCode IDE. -- Per Erik R�nne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe
From: Jim Gibson on 27 Jan 2010 12:58 In article <SalmonEgg-5F14B1.02321527012010(a)news60.forteinc.com>, Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > What would people here recommend that allow simple data manipulations > but not require much integration of software from multiple sources? I have not used it, but I have always thought Realbasic would be a good tool for simple programming jobs on the Mac: <http://www.realsoftware.com/realbasic/> -- Jim Gibson
From: nospam on 27 Jan 2010 13:33 In article <1jczqy0.1lze1gq1yqygl5N%per(a)RQNNE.invalid>, Per R�nne <per(a)RQNNE.invalid> wrote: > You can run GNU Pascal on your Mac. It is a kind of Borland Pascal and > it is a free download: it's not well supported and not worth the trouble.
From: nospam on 27 Jan 2010 13:33 In article <vilain-BB44A0.09502727012010(a)news.individual.net>, Michael Vilain <vilain(a)NOspamcop.net> wrote: > HATE Pascal. It's upside down (with subroutines first). declaring something before using it is hardly upside down. you need to do that with variables, for example.
From: nospam on 27 Jan 2010 13:33
In article <SalmonEgg-14FDB2.09432827012010(a)news60.forteinc.com>, Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote: > I have old versions of Pascal and C dating as far back as TML Pascal and > Symentec development systems. I presume these are useless. If anyone > knows differently, please let me know. useless. even if you could get it to work (and it would need classic which is gone), they compile to 68k code. |