Basic questions

From: J. A. Ek (public.1.NOSPAM_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 12/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 20:38:51 GMT

20 year ago or so I took some programming courses. In a computing
environment that was not Windows. Just a single program running
environment.

Courses were in FORTRAN, Pascal, and assembler. Anyhow I wanted to start
fooling around with a little programming again. But have to admit that
Windows environment has me thoroughly intimidated. What with registry files
etc.

Basically what I want to do is be able to create a file on a hard drive,
write to that file, retrieve information from that file, do comparisons,
simple arrays, display information.

I thoroughly enjoyed Pascal and think I've heard that Delphi is based on
Pascal.

So I'm just looking for input if you think Delphi is a package that I am
looking for. My current computer OS are Windows 98 on one machine and
Windows XP on another. In actuality I would love to be able to run the
programs in an MS-DOS environment.

TIA,
Jim

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