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Once it's just regular Pascal, why translate it to C? Why not just keep it as is and compile with Free Pascal/Lazarus?
by usrnm 2y ago
Once it's just regular Pascal, why translate it to C? Why not just keep it as is and compile with Free Pascal/Lazarus?
- p_l 2y agoDepending on the time frame, FreePascal/Lazarus might have simply been not available (or unknown) to the team. I remember how in ~1997 at a science camp we used Turbo Pascal under DOS for most programming labs, and whenever pascal code was run on Linux machines we used p2c translator and compiled the resulting C code.
- Sharlin 2y agoFree Pascal’s initial release was in 1997. "Long long time ago" may be longer than that.