Irie Pascal 2.6

Designed for beginners, who want to learn to program in Pascal, as well as for experienced programmers, who want to write small to medium-sized scripts (including CGI scripts) and utility programs.Irie Pascal is highly compatible with Standard (ISO/IEC 7185) Pascal This high level of compatibility means that Irie Pascal shares Standard Pascals strengths as a first language for beginners. These strengths include readable syntax, and extensive compile-time and run-time checking.Irie Pascal supports extensions to Standard Pascal, particularly in the areas of string and file/directory processing, which make it useful for creating scripts and utilities. Irie Pascal support for automatic run-time checking make it useful for creating "quick and dirty" programs (i.e. programs that are expected to be run only a few times or by only a few people and thus may not be worth spending a lot of time on).Irie Pascal ability to generate executables which run on multiple platforms make it ideally suited for creating internet applications. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a simple but powerful protocol for creating server side internet applications. Irie Pascal assists the creation of CGI scripts with built-in support for decoding and parsing URL encoded strings. Irie Pascal also supports the UNIX #! trick that allows the location of the interpreter to be embedded inside the script making it easier to execute the script from a URL, since the URL need only refer to the script and not the interpreter. See the "CopyWord", "CountWords", and "URLDecode" procedures in the Programmers Reference Manaul.Irie Pascal consists of a compiler (called the Irie Pascal Compiler) and an interpreter (called the Irie Virtual Machine Interpreter). The compiler translates Pascal programs into Irie Virtual Machine executables (IVM executables). IVM executables can not be directly executed but instead must be executed by the interpreter. Most other compilers generate "native-code" executables (i.e. executables which can be directly executed on a single computer platform but usually can not be executed at all on any other computer platform). The main advantage of IVM executables is that unlike "native-code" executables, IVM executables can be run on any computer platform on which the interpreter exists.Currently the interpreter exists on five computer platforms: 1) Win32 (i.e. Win95/98/NT) 2) DOS 3) Linux 4) OS/2 5) FreeBSD