and universities in Costa Rica, Turkey, Iraq, Germany, Russian Federation, USA and at secondary schools in Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Costa Rica, Croatia, France, Hungary, Italy, Jamaica, Libya, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Tunisia, Ukraine, Czech republic and Vietnam. It was the state-approved educational programming language for all South African secondary schools until 2002. Today it continues to be taught in some universities around the world as an introduction to computer programming, usually advancing to C or Java or both. Some lecturers prefer to use Borland Pascal 7 or Turbo Pascal 5.5 because of its simplicity in comparison to more modern IDEs such as Microsoft Visual Studio or Borland JBuilder, so it introduces students unfamiliar with computing to common tasks such as using the keyboard and keyboard shortcuts (TP 5.5 has no mouse support), familiarises them with DOS commands (which are largely the same as those of Microsoft Windows's command prompt), and lets them write programs without spending a lot of effort on getting the environment to work. TP 5.5 is available as a free download from Borland. See also Borland Graphics Interface Delphi (software) Free Pascal References External links Borland International, Inc. Turbo Pascal page: DOS 7.0, Windows 1.5 Inspire Corporation Turbo Pascal page: DOS 7.0, Windows 1.5 Borland Software Corporation Turbo Pascal page: DOS 7.0 Turbo Pascal 3 Code Generation, a description of the Turbo Pascal 3.0 compiler Turbo Pascal Compiler Internals , complete source code of a Turbo Pascal 7.0-compatible compiler Borland®/Inprise® Pascal Versions 1983 software Articles with example Pascal code Borland software CP/M software DOS software Classic Mac OS software Integrated development environments Object-oriented programming languages Pascal (programming language) compilers Assembly language software