On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:51 AM, Lars via Lazarus < lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org> wrote:
> On Mon, October 17, 2016 7:32 pm, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: > > One obvious point is that an "event" driven programming knowledge is a > > must to become a competent programmer . The problem is how this can be > > learned . Without knowing how to program an algorithm when a related > event > > is occurred , will bring any one to nothing means ( not to a success ) . > > > > An interesting question is what is an event and isn't in some way or > another all programming based on events that occur? > > The concept of callbacks is very similar to events. you make a callback > when something happens, just like an event. This can be done even in old > turbopascal programs or console mode programs.. > > I'm not so sure event driven programming is a must to become a competent > programmer, I would have to think about that. Events could (may) force a > programmer to think about programs in a certain way... when there are > alternatives? or are events the only alternative just in another form > (callbacks, or calling procedures). It begs the question about whether > events are just procedures being called, which is the same as any > programming methodology since all programs "call procedures". > > Is a compiler event driven? A competent programmer could write a compiler, > or a parser. Are they necessary to have event driven architectures? > > i.e. is the fpc compiler event driven, even if not officially event driven > someone ended up reinventing events in it? From what I understand Michael > V. C.'s documentation tool is event driven which differs from the fpc > compiler. However I beg the question: is all programming event driven in > some way since events are just "calls to procedures". Of course that is > simplifying it, but "what is an event?" would be a good computing science > article to write. If I had any time.. > -- > _______________________________________________ > Please see the following pages : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event-driven_programming ( Event-driven programming ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperative_programming ( Imperative programming ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Events_(computing) ( Category:Events (computing) ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Programming_paradigms ( Category:Programming paradigms ) You can find plenty of information in the above pages and in their linked pages . Lazarus IDE : An example of event driven programming FPC : An example of imperative programming Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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