Pascal?

[Arachnid13]

Hi,
I am well experienced in visual basic and have recently come across a competition which unfortunately only accepts entries written in pascal... what are the similarities between pascal and vb? as i know they are similar but i dont know how much... also are there any good sites where i can find a tutorial that covers most aspects of pascal?

thanks

[visualAd]

The keywords are similar. But they do not require the use of white space to separate statments, instead they use begin, end and semi colons. White space is allowed of course and recommended.

If condition Then
  statements
End If
 
If condition Then
  statements
Else
  statements
End If
 
If condition OR condition Then
  statements
End If
 
For var = 1 To 10
  statements
Next var
 
While condition
  statements
Wend
 
Do While Condition
  statements
Loop
 
Do
  statements
Loop Until condition

Pascal

if condition then
begin
  statements;
end;

if condition then
begin
  statement;
  statement;
end
else
begin
  statements;
end;


if (condition) OR (condition) then
begin
  statements
end;

for var := 1 to 10 do
begin
  statements;
end;

for var := 10 downto 1 do
begin
  statements;
end;

while condition do
begin
  statements;
end;

reapeat
  statements;
until; condition;

Pascal also has an assignment operator as well as an equality operator. Hence the following code assigns the value of a to be:

b := a;

Where as this tests whether a is equal to b:

a = b;

[MrPolite]

Hi,
I am well experienced in visual basic and have recently come across a competition which unfortunately only accepts entries written in pascal... what are the similarities between pascal and vb? as i know they are similar but i dont know how much... also are there any good sites where i can find a tutorial that covers most aspects of pascal?

thanks

I THINK pascal is kinda obsolete and useless nowadays, I wouldnt recomment learning it

[visualAd]

I THINK pascal is kinda obsolete and useless nowadays, I wouldnt recomment learning it

Well Delphi is still going strong and as Object Pascal is the underlaying lagnague of Delphi, I would say its yet to become obsolete.