Re: [fpc-pascal] 50 Years of Pascal

2021-02-24 Thread Liam Proven via fpc-pascal
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 21:24, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal wrote: > > I didn't know, thanks for the heads up :-) You are very welcome. Prof W is a bit of a hero of mine, even if my skills in any of his languages are poor! -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@ci

Re: [fpc-pascal] 50 Years of Pascal

2021-02-24 Thread Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
Am Mittwoch, 24. Februar 2021, 17:50:45 CET schrieb Liam Proven via fpc- pascal: > I thought this might interest folks. Apologies if I am late to the party. > > https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250705-50-years-of-pascal/fulltext https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklaus_Wirth Here is an interes

Re: [fpc-pascal] Generic routines for both dynamic array and other collections

2021-02-24 Thread Виктор Матузенко via fpc-pascal
вт, 23 февр. 2021 г. в 23:45, Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org>: > > Length(T) is what you want right? > Generic Length(T), yes. -- Victor Matuzenko (Виктор Матузенко) ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] 50 Years of Pascal

2021-02-24 Thread Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal
Am 24.02.21 um 17:50 schrieb Liam Proven via fpc-pascal: I thought this might interest folks. Apologies if I am late to the party. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250705-50-years-of-pascal/fulltext I didn't know, thanks for the heads up :-) __

[fpc-pascal] 50 Years of Pascal

2021-02-24 Thread Liam Proven via fpc-pascal
I thought this might interest folks. Apologies if I am late to the party. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/250705-50-years-of-pascal/fulltext -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/F

Re: [fpc-pascal] Traits Proposal

2021-02-24 Thread Ryan Joseph via fpc-pascal
Ok my summary thus far with this syntax (default interface delegation) is that composition is possible (which is very nice) but polymorphism is not really possible so it's not exactly an alternative to multiple inheritance. Besides the complications of implementing method resolution for classes

Re: [fpc-pascal] Questions from Semi-Beginner

2021-02-24 Thread Bo Berglund via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 20 Feb 2021 13:49:26 +0100, Sven Barth via fpc-pascal wrote: >Lazarus is nothing new. It's around 20 years old as well and is a very >stable and comfortable IDE for Free Pascal. You can use it for both GUI and >console development and especially the code utilities and the debugger >integr