Hi Arkady, TurboPascal is by far the most used Pascal dialect, even if not standarized (and FreePascal followed the good work, much ahead of the more standard GPC). In fact, both FreePascal and Delphi has been ported to Linux (and other platforms) so that you can create platform-independent apps (or at least Borland say so, I have never tried that), so the language itself is not that platform dependent (another story are the libraries, but there's even a FreePascal's DOS unit in Linux). Well, I don't expect an spectacular evolution in any 16-bit product (except for FreeDOS), and we should be happy if OpenWatcom does not give up the 16-bit line, but back to TP, one wouldn't be locked if you come across one bug that affects you.
Aitor 2006/7/9, Arkady V.Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > 9-Июл-2006 18:10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Aitor Santamarэa) wrote to > freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: > > >> So, even if Borland releases their compilers as open source, this gives > >> nothing useful. And even if they release compilers as free(dom) > >> open-source, > >> I doubt that someone (experienced) will spend they efforts to evolve them > >> to > >> something more modern. > AS> Well, I disagree with you for the case of TurboPascal: at least there > AS> would be ONE open source 16-bit Pascal compiler. > > Issue is, that TP is a Pascal dialect, nobody (including standards) > compatible and nowhere standardized. This (missing standards and > compatibility with standards) is especially important, because TP is highly > tied to DOS (and slightly to 16-bit Windows) platform and, thus, > non-portable to newer platforms. I think, this very highly decreases > perspectives of TP (_if_ it will be released as free open-source) to evolve. > If you not expect evolving, then why you need sources? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Freedos-user mailing list > Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
