At 11:50 PM 4/16/2001 -0400, Tom Guilderson wrote:

[... lots of good stuff ...]

> Also, are there any tools or compilers for Pascal? Remember, the Delphi folks
> understand Pascal, and I'm sure they will ask this question. (It has been 20
> years since I programmed anything in Pascal...).

I'll admit that this isn't much of a sample, but the three folks I know that actually use the product are proficient in C/C++ as well as Pascal, so you may not have much of an issue.

I won't proceed to thrash pascal since I have never really done any
development in pascal, but the linux/unix development world is dominated
by C. If it is not written in C, then the interpreter, byte code
interpreter/virtaul machine for the language was likely written in C
(perl, tcl/tk, python, java etc etc). C is also the language that gives
you the best interfaces for system calls into the low level aspects of
unix such as the file systems, I/O etc. If you are going to do any
serious development in a Unix environment, you will need to know C.

Kylix is both Pascal and C++. Pascal is being released first, with C++ not far behind. Kylix will also allow you to move your stuff from Windoze to Linux with apparent ease.

For more reading, here is an interesting article I found in my archives. I'll try to find a more recent reference...

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-01-31-001-27-OP-CY-SW