[Info-vax] Better languages than BASIC

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/12/2024 3:31 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> Outside the DEC world, there was UCSD Pascal, with an entirely different
> (and incompatible, and less ambitious) set of extensions. That became kind
> of a de facto standard in the PC world, with Turbo Pascal copying the same
> set of extensions, for example.
> 
> One project that still lives on is Free Pascal
> <https://www.freepascal.org/>, which aims to be compatible with UCSD/
> Turbo.

TurboPascal 5.5 added OOP. FPC aims at being Delphi compatible.

Which means that the main flow of extensions must be:

Apple Object-Pascal -> TP 5.5+ -> Delphi -> FPC

Arne