Wow..
I am impressed... I hope my PASCAL is better then my English (first foreign
language: Latin (for 7
years), 2nd English (6 years), 3rd ancient Greek (3 years)...)
Programming languages I worked with in the last 40 years:
1. Basic first on a Tektronix 4050 and a TRS-80 about 1979
2. Fortran batch jobs on a CDC Cyber 205
3. PASCAL first on a DEC VAX 780 about 1986
4. PDC Prolog on MS-DOS
5. Assembler
6. C
8. Perl and others on Linux from 1998
9. Java
10. Python
11. PHP
12. SPIN
....
n. ERLANG <- most recently
aside FORTRAN I earned some money programming in all languages above..
Totally off topic, but it is Christmas time..
Kind Regards
Markus
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On December 22, 2020, 1:03 PM GMT+1 fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org wrote:
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 22:11, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>>
>> I don't know what non native english speakers are taught, nor can I address
>> the folks across the pond, but here in the Us at least, has denotes
>> currently exists, while had indicates past tense, I.E. no longer exists.
>> Combining the two is where it gets dicy, and is generally avoided for
>> syntactical reasons.
> FWIW... I'm (among other things) a qualified teacher of English as a
> second language. "Has had" and "had had" are 100% genuine correct
> English tenses, called the present perfect and past perfect
> respectively.
> Simple present: FPC _has_ a console-mode IDE -- now, it possesses one.
> Simple past: FPC _had_ a console-mode IDE -- it used to, but this
> state ended in the past; it no longer does.
> Present perfect: FPC _has had_ a console-mode IDE -- it has one, and
> the time it started to have one is a significant time ago.
> Past perfect: FPC _had had_ a console-mode IDE -- it used to have one
> a long time ago, but it stopped having it a long time ago.
> I will not itemise all the other alternatives. There is an informal
> competition as to how many tenses it is possible to create in English,
> and the record is some 120 different ones, and 144 if you include
> passive-voice constructions. There are about a dozen in common use.
> FPC has had a console-mode IDE means that there is one now and that
> there has been one for a considerable time. I presume this is what
> Nikolay meant. I did not know and I apologize for my ignorance of
> this.
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