Hello, I'm teacher at the Université de Nice and intend to use Pascal as a supporting language in the course of basic algorithmic (first semester, first year, introduction to computer science, about 700 students). Last year I used Java in this course, a language too difficult for beginners and I've won a small war to obtain the return of Pascal. Some technicians are working to install the language on the student's PC, but I'm not a PC-user nor a true specialist in OS and I need to have a version of Pascal at home to prepare examples and problems. I own a portable PowerMac G4 running with the version 10.2.6 of MacOSX, I have imported the installer gpc-33d6.pkg from your page and runned it. Apparently, no problem. With TextEdit (I don't have any other) I've written the famous hello.pas and tried to compile it :
[hermes:~/Documents/Fac/Pascal] dominiqu% cat hello.pas program Hello (Output) ;
begin WriteLn('Hello, world !') end. [hermes:~/Documents/Fac/Pascal] dominiqu% gpc hello.pas /var/tmp//ccZQLUHj.s:56:Parameter error: expression out of range (parameter 4)
And I'm strictly unable to understand what is hapening.
1) could someone gives any help ?
2) I would need a syntactically adapted text editor, the simplest as possible (to install and use it) because I'm not a developper and I've a very few knowledge of the Unix system (strictly speaking, I'm not a computer scientist but a teacher firstly specialized in mathematics and linguistics) : what would be the better choice ?
Best regards, Dominique
PS : sorry for my bad use of English language.