i have encountered the site http://www.freepascal.org/ by chance, and surprised the many platforms it support (long list). i know it is a very old programming language, but i can't see any compiler coded with object pascal or its variations. it seems most if not all compilers are made with c/c++ mixed with some asm. free pascal seems beautiful i have downloaded it, and was able to run some of its opengl examples. its IDE is bad but i have used an editor and it is not hard to run fpc.exe code.pas from the command prompt. i have noticed Lazarus but i want to learn the base first, also lazarus very big.
still don't see any reason why programming languages developers don't make their products with free pascal and instead they go to c/c++ !!!??