Open Turing

[dtolj]

Hi all,

I was wondering if there exists an Open Source alternative to Turing programming language. Turing being proprietary software is a big down side since it is used in the field of education, this prevents more experienced students willing to look at the internals of the language design to do so. An open alternative would also allow students to download the software on their own machine and the Ontario school boards not to spend money on licensing the software.

cheers

[Clayton]

There was an idea here to start writing our own compiler, but nothing ever became of it

[haskell]

Turing is a Pascal-based language. There are many free and open-sources Pascal distributions available around.

[Drakain Zeil]

Turing isn't terrific as it stands anyway. Just what most schools bought into... as it was for sale. Go figure .

I say, teach real programming in school. Don't start building a house, then pour a foundation. I still see people moving from turing to C starting without include #, or int main(){}