Re: [OT] Re: Looking for interactive programming with simple graphics like old CoCo BASIC or turbo pascal
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 09:27:46 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
> On 8/15/12, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
>> How about Free Pascal and the Lazarus IDE? As I have understood, it's
>> the linux counterpart for Turbo Pascal :-?
>
> Hmm.
>
> Breaking out synaptic, I see that there are metapackages for lazarus and
> freepascal.
A quick note about this.
I don't recall what debian flavour you're running but if you finally
decide to give these applications a chance, ensure you install the latest
available versions (wheezy/sid should be fine but squeze may include an
old release; if that's the case, the upstream project usually provide
updated precompiled packages for many distributions).
> The lazarus metapackage loads the gtk2 variant of the ide. Any thoughts
> about the qt4 variant? (I'm inclined to go with the metapackage if I do
> this, QT has never been anything but opaque to me, so far.)
Can't comment on the packages themselves, sorry, I never used Lazarus/
Freepascal before but this is what users recommend as a replacement for
TurboPascal.
> Wow! 109M download, 691M of disk space expected to be used.
Wow, that's *a lot*.
> Well, I do have the free space, and I see that part of that is gdb and
> other dev stuff I need anyway.
Consider installing that big amount of data in a virtual machine instead
filling up your disk in a very insane way because if you finally don't
like it, it's easier to delete a VM than having to remove those
packages ;-)
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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