On 01/19/2017 08:38 PM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I know you hate the beige boxes, but there is no better IDE for Pascal than Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS.
Yeah I'm familiar with that. I had a 486 in college (mid-90s) and my suitemate had me install Turbo Pascal so he didn't have to schlep across campus to the computer lab to do his homework.
I'd also consider Turbo C for MS-DOS. Or, if you want to go a different period direction, use cc on your Linux box and force yourself to use a command line editor (vi or Emacs).
What's a good graphical C for Linux? I'd rather avoid the command line. I know how to use it modestly enough, but I don't enjoy it.
Here are my opinions, first skip the Pascal, other than Turbo Pascal (which was great) I don't see a lot of use for it. It was meant as a teaching language and I think Python is used for that now (good language though the indentation brings me back to my Assembly Language days, yes with 4 char labels). C is good, learn that and you are part way to Assembly Language and part way to a high level language. It's enough to handle most of the Arduino stuff. The problem with Pascal anc C in the museum is that you need to have a complex env. setup and running, machine and software. This is a bit high maintenance though we probably should have something that can run in the museum so my argument may not be valid. As far an IDE is concerned, I'm the wrong person to ask I live in emacs. But I hear nice things about Eclipse but I don't like the env. Sorry I've been using emacs since 1978 and I know the key strokes without thought. Does give me some trouble when I'm using MS Word. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies