2 Nov
2016
2 Nov
'16
6:30 p.m.
On 11/02/2016 06:38 PM, Mark Wickens wrote:
I recently discovered the very excellent website
http://pascal.hansotten.com devoted to all things Wirth.
I did a lot of work in Pascal on VAX and Windows systems in
the '80s or so, and have some legacy programs that were in
use until recently. I was VERY pleased to discover FPC
(Free Pascal Compiler) which implements the Borland and DEC
extensions very well. A big program that was one of the
last Pascal programs I wrote in Borland turbo Pascal for
Windows converted Gerber photoplotting language to a raster
file. I was able to get it recompiled on Linux using FPC in
just a few days, and it runs fine (better in fact than the
original).
And, of course, it is again maintainable!
Jon