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Re:There's still no silver bullet by bitwize on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:09PM (#36496573)
If you want to write clean procedural programs with an improvement over C, you know where to find Free Pascal :)
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Re:There's still no silver bullet by c_crank on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @02:15PM (#36496642)
I actually don't know where to find Free Pascal - the question of which kind of Pascal and which compiler / build environment to use always seemed leery for someone looking for a Better C type language.
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Re:There's still no silver bullet by bitwize on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:00PM (#36497915)
https://www.freepascal.org/

It's also likely in your favorite distro's repo.

Among Pascal fans, Free Pascal is generally considered "the way" because it's closest to Turbo Pascal/Delphi.

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Re:There's still no silver bullet by AstralStorm on Tuesday June 27, 2023 @04:08PM (#36498003)
It is an Object Pascal (8 I believe?) implementation - has a backwards compatible unextended mode that matches Delphi. It does have a few extras of its own, especially improved assembly and C integrations.

Lazarus is the open Delphi libraries implementation that uses it.

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