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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."

2 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. 5 years too late... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Pascal is obsolete.

  2. Re:Out of curiousity... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I have been using Delphi since it came out and Pascal not to many years after it came out.

    Wrote my 9-1-1 mapping application in 1995 when no one else even had an idea about doing it [was actually ported from VB3].

    Why Pascal/Delphi/[maybe FP] is the power of C++ and often is faster, can have direct ASM blocks and inline, somewhat the easy of VB with the sloppy coding.

    Besides all those {({(code)})} get might damn hard on the eyes and why the redunancy in C++ with =/== and +/++. C was written as a joke to be hard and difficult and I'd much rather do ASM if I don't do Pascal.

    --wap3