TOOL: Free Pascal (compliler) and Lazarus (IDE)

Free Pascal is still being used actively to teach programming skills to youngsters, I have recently learned. It is free as the name implies and includes a text-based IDE (for those who remember what that was:  Borland Turbo Pascal).

For download and documentation see:

• Free Pascal documentation index: https://www.freepascal.org/docs.var
• If interested also make sure to read about Lazarus (a free GUI-based IDE): http://wiki.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Documentation
• ... and Virtual Pascal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Pascal

Turbo Pascal is nowadays freely downloadable in the Embarcadero site (which bought Borland) and still releases Delphi (an evolution of the Turbo Pascal IDE and the Object Pascal language for Graphical User Interfaces:

• http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20792  
• "Freeware release: Borland released several versions of Turbo Pascal as freeware after they became "antique software" (abandonware) in 2002. The newest released international version was TP 5.5, while the newer French TP 7.01 was also released as freeware.The downloads are still available on the successor website of Embarcadero Technologies." (Source: Wikipedia)