Pascal and Delphi

Pascal was originally developed as a teaching language by Niklaus Wirth in the late 1960s. It has influenced the design of many later languages and is still in widespread use, although different implementations tend to incorporate incompatible extensions to overcome language limitations.

Borland's Delphi is based on an object-oriented extension of Pascal, and is similar to Visual Basic. Like Visual Basic it is a commercial product, so there is no compiler available on this CD. Unlike Visual Basic, it does not generate interpretive code which requires a DLL interpreter module. Instead, it generates small stand-alone executable files which execute much faster than an equivalent Visual Basic program would.

Development tools:

	TMT Pascal Lite 3.30 A 32-bit Pascal compiler for DOS.    ¤  Jan 2000. Free for non-commercial use. Home site: http://www.tmt.com/
	Free Pascal A Pascal compiler for Windows, which includes complete source code (in Pascal, of course!).    ¤  Feb 2000. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://tfdec1.fys.kuleuven.ac.be/~michael/fpc/
	Visible Pascal A Pascal compiler for DOS with an integrated development environment.    ¤  Jul 1991. Shareware.
	DJGPP DJ Delorie's version of GCC 2.95.2 (the GNU C compiler) for DOS and Windows 3.1, which supports C, C++, Objective-C, Pascal and Fortran 77.    ¤  Apr 2000. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.delorie.com/
	Irie An ISO Pascal compiler/interpreter for Windows.    ¤  Jan 2000. Shareware. Home site: http://www.irietools.com/
	DFE95 A free Windows IDE for DJGPP.    ¤  Apr 1998. Freeware. Home site: http://www.delorie.com/
	Rhide A development environment for use with the DJGPP compiler.    ¤  Sep 1997. Free software under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Home site: http://www.delorie.com/
	Coco/R An LL(1) compiler generator which generates parsers and scanners in Pascal. Includes full source code.    ¤  Jun 2001. Freeware. Home site: http://cs.ru.ac.za/homes/cspt/cocor.htm

Tutorials and FAQs:

	A Brief History of Pascal Historical background on the Wirth family of languages (Pascal, Modula-2, and especially Oberon, which evolved into Component Pascal) from Oberon Microsystems.    ¤  1997. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.oberon.ch/docu/history.html
	The Unofficial Delphi Developers FAQ A useful collection of tips and tricks culled from various Delphi-related newsgroups and other sources.    ¤  17 Jun 2000. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.gnomehome.demon.nl/uddf/
	The Delphi Component Writing FAQ A collection of questions and answers about writing Delphi components.    ¤  6 Jun 1997. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://home.att.net/~miano/ (now gone. Was plain text only; HTML markup by John English)
	Introduction to Programming Langauges A comparative study of programming languages, their development and the development of the programming paradigms that they embody.    ¤  3 Aug 2001. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://cs.wwc.edu/~aabyan/221_2/PLBOOK/
	Object-Oriented Programming FAQ Frequently-asked questions about object-oriented programming in general.    ¤  2 Apr 1996. Reproduced by permission. Home site: http://www.cyberdyne-object-sys.com/oofaq2/
	The DJGPP FAQ All about DJGPP, DJ Delorie's port of the gcc compiler to DOS.    ¤  2 Feb 2000. Freely redistributable. Home site: http://www.delorie.com/

Software resources:

Delphi components Assorted Delphi components, many of which include source code.

External resources:

	SWAG A goldmine of Pascal source code examples.
	The Delphi Super Page A site with a huge library of Delphi components and other relevant material.
	City Zoo This provides some Delphi tips & tricks and a Delphi buglist.
	Pascal links at Yahoo These are also available at Yahoo UK.
	Delphi links at Yahoo These are also available at Yahoo UK.
	Cetus Object-Orientation Links A huge collection of object-oriented links.
	The OO Soapbox A wide-ranging collection of information about object-oriented programming.
	The comp.lang.pascal.misc newsgroup A newsgroup for discussion of general Pascal-related issues.
	The comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc newsgroup A newsgroup for discussion of general Delphi-related issues.
	The comp.lang.pascal.delphi.components newsgroup A newsgroup for discussion of Delphi component-related issues.
	The comp.lang.pascal.delphi.databases newsgroup A newsgroup for discussion about using Delphi to access databases.
	The comp.object newsgroup A newsgroup for discussions of general object-oriented programming.