JJ> I enjoyed Pascal after I moved on from Basic many
     > years ago.  I look at it now and wonder why I just
     > didn't jump into C or C++.  The more I understood
     > Pascal, the more I learned about C++. So I guess it's
     > practically to experiment the space shuttle first
     > before flying to the moon.

 AB>     I prefer Pascal to C but I've been trying to force
 AB> myself to learn C because it's easier to find documentation and
 AB> supported compilers for C.  Pascal feels cleaner though, for
 AB> application programming at least.

you really should take a look at free pascal, then... it is multi-platform and
multi-OS... granted, not everything is the same across the multi parts but
most of it is... it is also still in development as is the separate Lazarus
RAD environment... i participate in the mailing lists for both and only rarely
ever go to the forums for them... plus there's a newsgroup or two where they
are also discussed and supported...

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