Lazarus: Pascal and Delphi Rise Again
Lazarus is a RAD tool, or Rapid Application Development tool that runs on the three major platforms (Linux, Windows and Mac OS). It is very similar to Delphi, a popular RAD developed by Borland. And like Delphi, it uses a variant of Pascal for its underlying programming language. In Lazarus' case, it's Free Pascal.
In the days when I used Windows, I used to develop applications with Delphi. Since I had switched to development of web based applications, I never really had any interest in returning to Pascal based programming. Recently, however, I reviewed some of the code for a foreign language learning application I had created with Delphi. Luckily, I found Lazarus. Like me, if you're in a situation where a web-based approach just isn't right and contemplating programming in C/C++ makes you break out in a cold sweat, Lazarus may be what you're looking for.
Installation
Installation in Ubuntu (Feisty) wasn't glitch-free, though I didn't end up in dependency hell either. From Sourceforge, I downloaded a tarball that includes all of the Free Pascal packages you need. Along with that file, I got the Lazarus .deb package. First, I tried to install the Free Pascal packages with 'dpkg -i'. I got an error installing one of the packages - the win32 cross compiler. My system was lacking libc6-dev. I installed via apt-get and then installed the final package.
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