Pascal and VDM readers, feel the irony: Jeff Duntemann hanging back from a RAD environment because he'd hoped to have a more broadbly applicable (read here: portable) book. (There's a Mac port, but I've heard it's less complete and much less robust than the others.) It's possible to create ordinary console apps in FreePascal using Lazarus as the IDE, but I hesitated to use Lazarus as the example IDE in the book because it's only available for Windows, Linux, and FreeBSD. The idea was to create an open-source alternative to Delphi, by writing a GUI front end for FreePascal. I've been following the Lazarus project since it had been the Megido project, back in 1998. One wonders why the damned thing is still there. Try to set the text display resolution to anything at all (25 X 80, 43 X 80, whatever) and it crashes. I installed the new 2.4.0 release of FreePascal yesterday, and the IDE hasn't changed a bit. I had hoped that there was an easy fix, but apparently not. But there was another problem: The text-mode IDE included with FreePascal is erratic in the extreme, and crashed constantly on me, especially under Windows. I set the project aside in part because I needed to get my assembly book updated and back into print-something that took most of a year and all of the personal energy I could summon. About two years ago I started piecing together a book on FreePascal based on my 1992 Bantam book, Borland Pascal 7 From Square One.
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