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pascal and its successors: modula-2, modula-3, oberon. ada has its own subspacu now, /s/ada.
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I finally discovered Single Window mode for Lazarus and I like it quite a bit more.
If I pick up a delphi book, by say, Marco Cantu, will this help me with the non graphical portions of free pascal? I guess my driving question here is, should I bother reading up on Delphi, or will it confuse me since they may have diverged far enough away. I know there's Delphi mode in FPC, but I'd like to learn just one, and there's more documentation on Delphi.
💬 5 comments · Apr 27 · 13 days ago
Why did Wirth's languages never see widespread adoption besides Pascal? Even Pascal is not used much nowadays outside of Delphi and Lazarus. I tried Pascal myself and I found it to be a nice language structurally, but I also found it to be missing basic features that relate to writing the language itself (example: not being able to insert newlines into strings like you would do in C via '\n'). I also don't like how much "modern" Pascal is centered around just 2 compilers: FreePascal and...
💬 43 comments · Apr 25 · 2 weeks ago
1992-06-27: Modula-3 Users' Group meeting report: part 4 of 4 (breakout sessions)
💬 View post · Apr 14 · 4 weeks ago · #modula-3
I've been enjoying using Pascal for my Farkle game, but one recent annoyance is timezones. On Linux I can't find a function that properly respects the local timezone of the machine. universaltolocal() doesn't work because tzoffset() is always 0. I just have to manually set the offset, but I feel like I shouldn't have to. Anyways, other than that, it's been fun.
💬 9 comments · 1 like · Apr 12 · 4 weeks ago
The costs and benefits of interfaces
💬 View post · Apr 11 · 4 weeks ago
Memory safety and Object Pascal
💬 1 comment · 1 like · Apr 10 · 4 weeks ago
is pascal a memory safe language?
💬 7 comments · Mar 25 · 7 weeks ago
anyone have a good guide for integrating sqlite3 without Lazarus or forms? I found a simple example but I wanted a bit of description on the units and their functions.
💬 1 comment · 1 like · Feb 27 · 2 months ago
packaging pascal for different operating systems. — in one of pascal projects i found a script to package for different operating systems: [https link] the script. even linus pointed it out in one of his q&a sessions that he doesn't know for which distribution his diving related software has to be packaged. and apparently it's possible to have some abstraction to package simultaneosly for different, not only distributions, but operating systems. i feel pascal software is not appreciated in...
💬 View post · Feb 23 · 3 months ago
so this subspace got me looking into pascal, and as a non professional programmer it's fairly easy to understand. I might make some of my CGI scripts with it in the future. edit: I figured out how to print a "20" line: writeLn('20 text/gemini; charset=utf-8'#13#10);
💬 2 comments · 2 likes · Feb 17 · 3 months ago
write palmos software with freepascal
💬 1 like · Feb 16 · 3 months ago
power consumption of programming languages — this is an article about the research. couldn't help but notice that pascal is on the top row in three columns. that's because of the language and because freepascal compiler is written very good.
💬 1 comment · Feb 16 · 3 months ago
forget basic, we had pascal and c
💬 1 like · Feb 03 · 3 months ago
Apple's Pascal Poster in vector format
💬 2 likes · Feb 03 · 3 months ago
niklaus wirth died — [https link]
💬 3 comments · Jan 03 · 4 months ago