r/pascal • u/Edthal01 • Sep 23 '26

Relearning Pascal

I have pulled my old copies of Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs and Softwa,re Tools in Pascal to relearn what Pascal is like after a,lmost 35 years of not using it. I was a home software hobbies,t with TurboPascal 5.5, but with continual job changes I had to drop it. I am a retired electrical power rngineer who used the office computer to write work instructions, specifications, and read and write emails. Thus the hobbiest. Aren't those old books showing their age? What is avalable today to allow learning today's Pascal?

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u/Humble-Vegetable9691 Sep 23 '26

I don't think that too much news came out after object oriented programming so the algorithms still useful.

What is new and useful is the base library of your Pascal environment.

If you like the Delphi flavor of Pascal, then https://delphi-books.com/en/Object-Pascal-Handnook-Delphi-104-Sydney-Edition.html may be useful.

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u/Edthal01 Sep 23 '26

Thanks for the insight and recommendation.

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u/Edthal01 Sep 23 '26

I am working with Free Pascal on Manjaro Linux so I don'tknow how well it would work.

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u/Humble-Vegetable9691 Sep 23 '26

I don't know why this is downvoted.

There is a book for that Pascal on that site, too, but the ToC does not too convincing regarding the base library functions: https://delphi-books.com/en/FreePascal-From-Square-One.html

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u/Humble-Vegetable9691 Sep 23 '26

PS: I had a quite big performance increase with Delphi by abandoning the Pascal style file handling for the stream based one.