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Free Pascal 2.0 Released

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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  1. awww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I think it's so cute that Delphi users consider themselves "developers."

  2. Free Pascal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If we free Pascal, Butch won't have anybody to assrape!

  3. NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGER n by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGER

  4. Re:awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In English, most sentences begin with a capital letter. Also, most sentences that are questions end with a question mark.

  5. Re:awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In English, most sentences begin with a capital letter. Also, the word "I" is usually capitalized. Well, at least you terminated your question with a question mark this time.

  6. Re:awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    In English, most sentences begin with a capital letter. Also, the word "want" never contains an apostrophe. Finally, the occasional comma in the appropriate places in long sentences would be helpful.

  7. Not worth the effort by oldCoder · · Score: 0, Troll
    The computing community would have been better off if the developers of Free Pascal had built something more original and worked on a "Killer App" or two.

    Where they afraid that Borland would end up with monopoly control of the software industry? That Delphi would overpower .NET? Was the cost of buying Delphi higher than the development costs of Free Pascal?

    --

    I18N == Intergalacticization
  8. Re:NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGER nigger NIGGE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    shitshitshitshitshitshitshit...
    don't be a muthafucka