Re: Basic questions
From: C Rode (crode_at_notmail.com)
Date: 12/29/03
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Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 22:16:38 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.
>
Delphi has a console mode that makes W'ndows apps similar to console
programming in DOS. A W'ndows GUI app in Delphi would require input into an
edit field and output either to a memo control or output to the screen.
Delphi Standard is no longer available, Delphi Personal has restrictions,
and Delphi Professional is expensive...
For console programming on W'ndows there is also PowerBasic. For simple GUI
programming on W'ndows there is TrueBasic. Of course there is
VisualBasic...VB.Net ? Often mentioned here are also LibertyBasic and
XBasic.
Basic programmers in general might be interested in Pascal as similar to
Basic but advocates of Pascal do not admit relation to the forerunner
Fortran.
A French version of TP7 for DOS can often be found as a free download from
Borland France. The only current link that I can find seems to be a backdoor
listed at comp.lang.pascal on 12/24/03.
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