tool: Free Pascal Compiler

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Language:	Pascal
Version:	0.99.14 (stable), 0.99.15 (development)
Parts:	compiler, run time library, tools, documentation
Author:	Florian Klaempfl (Florian.Klaempfl@gmx.de) and the FPC development team (fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org)
Location:	http://www.freepascal.org
Description:	Free Pascal (aka FPK Pascal) is a 32 bit Pascal command line compiler. It is completely written in Pascal and compiles itself. Documentation is available in TeX, HTML, PDF, RTF and plain text. A text mode IDE is under development, a Delphi-like RAD environment too (see <http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org> and <http://www.kcl.freepascal.org>).
Conformance:	99% Turbo Pascal compatible and supports most Delphi extensions as well. Extra functionality: * procedure/function/operator overloading * functions can return complex types * macro's * smart linking support
Restriction:	may be freely distributed unter the terms of the GNU General Public License or in case of the library under the terms of the GNU Library General Public cense.
Portability:	run time library: very high compiler: high, code generator is being rewritten to be more portable
Ports:	80x86: Dos (go32v2), Linux, OS/2 (emx), Win32 (BSD in progress) 680x0: Amiga, Atari ST
Announcements:	New releases will be announced in comp.lang.pascal.misc, on the news page of the website and in the mailing lists
Updated:	Latest official release: 2000/01/27

language: Pascal

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