Hi Curt thanks very much for your reply, I'll certainly take a look at Pascal
appreciate your taking the time to help richard On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 7:48:04 PM UTC-4, Curt Carpenter wrote: > > I'd suggest taking a look at Free Pascal. It's well supported and can be > compiled and cross-compiled on a number of different platforms including > the BBB. It also enjoys a wide range of libraries and a good and active > support forum. You can get an idea of capabilities by visiting the Lazarus > website: http://www.lazarus-ide.org > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lazarus-ide.org%2F&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGx6VmjA3Avxi8VC8th9Ten4JSbuw> > > . Lazarus supports rapid application development and is built *on top* > of free pascal. Free pascal itself can be run in a command line mode that > disposes of all of the overhead that goes with an elaborate GUI. This > makes it well suited to applications that don't require a lot of > man-machine interaction. > > Array handling is not integral to the Pascal language, but you will find a > broad assortment of math libraries, some more optimized than others, that > are written in the language. > > Both the Free Pascal Compiler and Lazarus are open-source and available > for free download on the internet. I've used both on an RPi, but have > been using C++ for now on my BBB. C++ has the advantage of being supported > by the the Eclipse IDE. You can use C++, of course, without exploiting > it's OOP capabilities. > > > > > -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
