1) Should I bother?
2) Where can I get a cheap (read free) Pascal compiler for Mac?
3) Are there any significant differences I will have to watch out for?
From the code I've seen in here it looks like Pascal lacks <end if> and
<end for> statements; is this the case?

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In article <FACLyx.DID.0.qu...@torfree.net>, da...@torfree.net (Karl

1. pass
2. Think Pascal is available for
free...ftp://ftp.symantec.com/public/english_us_canada/products/think_pascal...
3. I am not familiar with Turing but in Pascal you don't use "end if"; you
use "end"

Doug

I'm not sure what Turing is, so I can't answer this question. However, I
can tell you that Pascal is quite easy to learn if you know the main
concepts of programming languages. Pascal may not be popular, but it is
still a good language. The decision is totally yours.

Well, in an If block with less than one statement, there is not need for
an End.
For example:

If condition Then
        do some things here;

An If block with more than one statement does require begin and ends as
seen below:

If condition Then
        Begin
                do some things here;
                do more things here;
        End;

This concept is the same with For loops.
One:
For Count := 1 To 10 Do
        do stuff here;
Two or More:
For Count := 1 To 10 Do
        Begin
                do stuff here;
                do more stuff here;
        End;

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I assume turing is a language. Depends. Its better than switching
to C :)

Theoretically GPC should be Macable. It would require some skill on
your part, however.

You betcha. In the book "Oberon, the language", Wirth (the creator of
Pascal) said that the omission of the specific end statements for for, while
and if statements was a major flaw in Pascal's design, which was done
at the time to please Algol programmers (which I presume worked the
same way). And all his later languages included that feature.

Note that you can get the exact same effect by using begin-end braketing:

for ... do begin .. end;
while ... do begin ... end;
if ... then begin ... end;

Me, I use while and for for small tasks un{*word*62}erated, braket for anything
significant, and usually braket if/then/else for any complex ifs whatever.
I got very tired of dealing with dangling else's.

No, and increasingly it is considered rude to ask, sorry.

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