PascalABC.NET

PascalABC.NET - is a new generation Pascal programming language, including classic Pascal, most Delphi language features, as well as a number of their own extensions. It is implemented on the Microsoft.NET platform and contains all the modern language features: classes, operator overloading, interfaces, exception handling, generic classes and routines, garbage collection, lambda expressions, parallel programming tools.

PascalABC.NET
Paradigm	Multi-paradigm: procedural, functional, object-oriented, generic
Designed by	S.S. Mikhalkovich, Ivan Bondarev, A.V. Tkachuk, S.O. Ivanov
First appeared	2002; 23 years ago (2002)
Stable release	3.1.0.1166 / 12 February 2016; 9 years ago (2016-02-12)
Typing discipline	Static, partially inferred
Implementation language	PascalABC.NET
OS	Cross-platform
License	LGPLv3
Filename extensions	.pas
Website	pascalabc.net/en/
Influenced by
Delphi, Pascal, C#, Python

PascalABC.NET is also a simple and powerful IDE with integrated debugger, IntelliSense system, form designer, code templates and code auto-formatting. Command-line PascalABC.NET compiler is also available on Linux and MacOS (under Mono).

Key features of PascalABC.NET

Pascal language extensions

• Operators += -= *= /=
• in-block variable definitions
• Variable declaration in for loop header
• Variable declaration with initialization (var n: integer := 10;)
• Variable type deduction (var x := 1;)
• foreach
• Routines with a variable number of parameters
• set of any type (set of integer)
• Methods in records
• Methods defined in class declaration
• Simplified syntax of units
• Keyword new для вызова конструктора
• Field initializers
• Operator overloading
• Static constructors
• Directives OpenMP
• case for strings
• function type syntax T->T
• tuple type syntax (T1,T2)