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===Variations=== Niklaus Wirth's Zürich version of Pascal was issued outside [[ETH Zürich|ETH]] in two basic forms: the CDC 6000 compiler source, and a porting kit called Pascal-P system. The Pascal-P compiler left out several features of the full language that were not required to bootstrap the compiler. For example, procedures and functions used as parameters, undiscriminated variant records, packing, dispose, interprocedural gotos and other features of the full compiler were omitted. [[UCSD Pascal]], under Professor [[Kenneth Bowles]], was based on the Pascal-P2 kit, and consequently shared several of the Pascal-P language restrictions. UCSD Pascal was later adopted as Apple Pascal, and continued through several versions there. Although UCSD Pascal actually expanded the subset Pascal in the Pascal-P kit by adding back standard Pascal constructs, it was still not a complete standard installation of Pascal. In the early 1990s, [[Alan Burns (professor)|Alan Burns]] and Geoff Davies developed Pascal-FC, an extension to Pl/0 (from the Niklaus' book ''Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs''). Several constructs were added to use Pascal-FC as a teaching tool for Concurrent Programming (such as semaphores, monitors, channels, remote-invocation and resources). To be able to demonstrate concurrency, the compiler output (a kind of [[p-code machine|P-code]]) could then be executed on a virtual machine. This virtual machine not only simulated a normal – fair – environment, but could also simulate extreme conditions (unfair mode). ====Borland-like Pascal compilers==== [[Borland]]'s [[Turbo Pascal]], written by [[Anders Hejlsberg]], was written in assembly language independent of UCSD and the Zürich compilers. However, it adopted much of the same subset and extensions as the UCSD compiler. This is probably because the UCSD system was the most common Pascal system suitable for developing applications on the resource-limited microprocessor systems available at that time. The [[shrink-wrapped]] Turbo Pascal version 3 and later incarnations, including Borland's [[Object Pascal]] and [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]] and non-Borland near-compatibles became popular with programmers including shareware authors, and so the SWAG library of Pascal code features a large amount of code written with such versions as Delphi in mind. Software products ([[compiler]]s, and IDE/[[Rapid Application Development]] (RAD)) in this category: * [[Turbo Pascal]] – "TURBO.EXE" up to version 7, and Turbo Pascal for Windows ("TPW") and [[Turbo Pascal#Apple Macintosh|Turbo Pascal for Macintosh]]. * Pure Pascal and HiSPeed Pascal 2 Pascal language Environment for the [[Atari ST]] range of computers. * [[Turbo Pascal|Borland Pascal 7]] – A professional version of Turbo Pascal line which targeted both DOS and Windows. * [[Object Pascal]] – an extension of the Pascal language that was developed at [[Apple Computer]] by a team led by [[Larry Tesler]] in consultation with [[Niklaus Wirth]], the inventor of Pascal; its features were added to Borland's [[Turbo Pascal#Apple Macintosh|Turbo Pascal for Macintosh]] and in 1989 for Turbo Pascal 5.5 for DOS. * [[Delphi (software)|Delphi]] – Object Pascal is essentially its underlying language. * [[Free Pascal]] compiler (FPC) – Free Pascal adopted the standard dialect of Borland Pascal programmers, Borland Turbo Pascal and, later, Delphi. * [[PascalABC.NET]] – a new generation Pascal programming language including compiler and IDE. * [[Kylix (software)|Borland Kylix]] is a compiler and IDE formerly sold by Borland, but later discontinued. It is a [[Linux]] version of the [[Delphi (software)|Borland Delphi]] software development environment and [[C++Builder]]. * [[Lazarus (IDE)|Lazarus]] – similar to Kylix in function, is a free cross-platform visual IDE for RAD using the Free Pascal compiler, which supports dialects of [[Object Pascal]] to varying degrees. * [[Virtual Pascal]] – VP2/1 is a fully Borland Pascal– and Borland Delphi–compatible 32-bit Pascal compiler for OS/2 and Windows 32 (with a Linux version "on the way").<ref>{{cite web |title=Virtual Pascal for OS/2 |url=http://www.pascal-central.com/vpascal.html |access-date=3 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110830023208/http://pascal-central.com/vpascal.html |archive-date=30 August 2011 }}</ref> * Sybil is an open source Delphi-like IDE and compiler; implementations include: ** WDSibyl<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wdsibyl.org/ |title=WDSibyl: Visual Development Environment |author=Wolfgang |date=October 15, 2020 |website=WDSibyl.org |access-date=2020-04-20 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212174135/https://www.wdsibyl.org/ |archive-date=2020-02-12}}</ref> for [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[OS/2]], a commercial Borland Pascal compatible environment released by a company named Speedsoft that was later developed into a Delphi-like [[rapid application development]] (RAD) environment named Sybil and then open sourced under the GPL when that company closed down; ** Open Sybil, which is an ongoing project, an [[Open-source software|open source]] tool for OS/2 and eCS that was originally based on Speedsoft's WDsybl Sibyl Portable Component Classes (SPCC) and Sibyl Visual Development Tool (SVDE) sources, but now its core is [[IBM System Object Model]] (SOM), WPS and [[OpenDoc]].<ref>{{cite web |title=netlabs.org – Project: Open Sibyl |url=http://sibyl.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml |access-date=3 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304132432/http://sibyl.netlabs.org/en/site/index.xml |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>
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