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Free Pascal 2.0 Released

Posted by timothy on from the collect-the-whole-set dept.

Eugenia writes "After five years of development, Free Pascal 2.0 is ready and it includes support for many architectures and OSes. It now has threading support, interfaces, widestring and better Delphi support among many other new features. OSNews posted an article introducing the updated GPL compiler." petermgreen adds a list of some of the major changes since the last stable release: "Much better support for Delphi language features (especailly method pointers); more supported CPUs (AMD64, SPARC, PPC (32 bit), ARM) and platforms (Mac OS classic, Mac OS X, MorphOS, Novell Netware); a new and better structured Unix RTL Threading support; and a large number of internal changes including rewriting large parts of the compiler to make it more maintainable and easier to port to new architectures," and notes that "Visual parts of Delphi are being handled by a seperate project known as lazarus, which has not yet reached 1.0 but should do so fairly soon."

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    Looks like the same guy as in one of the previous postings. New Speak (debuggin, naturaly, codding, "Its good", alot, achive, programing, definantly, debuging, "stand point", untill, freepascal) is double plus ungood for the brain. In other news: http://telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2 005/05/15/nspell15.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/15/i xportal.html

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