I took a class on the Pascal programming language once, and even became decent with Turbo Pascal waaay back, in the days when DOS was king. I haven't used it much since the advent of Windows.
So, when I learned a few weeks ago that there is a really good free compiler available... one that is Turbo Pascal compatible (and even compatible with TP's successor, Delphi), I grabbed a copy
You can get it here, for Windows, linux or Apple. http://www.lazarus-ide.org/index.php?page=downloads
I was surprised how much I'd forgotten, so I bought an old Pascal book from AbeBooks.com ($3.95 including shipping) and spent the last three days re-learning the language and writing a program to solve Sudoku puzzles. (* I'm sure snapits would have loved it. *)
If you'd like to play with it, here's the program. It's called SudokuSolver3, by the way, because I backed up the code each day and started the next day with a new name.
If anyone gives it a try, let me know if you have any feedback.
*grumble* Looks like I'll need to break the code up into pieces or AtomicBobs won't let it post (due to its length). Just append the pieces together to make a single program...
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