[Linux-aus] Should I feel sorry for Queenslanders?!

[Lev Lafayette]

On Fri, January 3, 2014 1:26 pm, Daniel Jitnah wrote:
>> Do we have a Linux development environment that comes out of the box
>> with an
>> editor that has a function-key to compile and run?
>
> Lazarus is as close as you'd get to Borland Pascal/Delphi. Probably a
> bit more than the original Borland Turbo Pascal version 3, but does have
> "a function-key to compile and run" = F9

Strictly speaking it's Free Pascal for the Borland Turbo Pascal component and
Lazarus for the Delphi part.

This said, I haven't used the IDE it comes with for years, preferring to run

fpc <source.pas>


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