I don't know if it will win any new users but I wrote about it yesterday:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/19/delphi_turns_30/
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On Fri, 18 Oct 2024 at 21:23, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
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> Also, I see very few (if any) examples of how to generate GUI apps when
> using fpc commandline compiling, (again, without lazarus in the mix).
There is a modernised version of TurboVision out there:
https://github.com/magiblo
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 14:58, Ștefan-Iulian Alecu via fpc-pascal
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> I tried to compile it using Free Pascal and fix it, however I am
> constantly stuck with all the Kylix-specific parts. I even tried
> installing actual Kylix just to see if it was my fault, but that's
> apparently notoriou
On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 at 00:16, Rainer Stratmann via fpc-pascal
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> At the Lazarus Congress in Cologne in October 2024, it ended up being very
> interesting.
Promoting the event better might help! I did not know about it at all.
> Why are no new users coming to Lazarus/Freepascal?
Pascal i
On Fri, 5 Jan 2024 at 09:14, Tony Whyman via fpc-pascal
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> "Swiss computer scientist Professor Niklaus Wirth died on New Year's
> Day, roughly six weeks before what would have been his 90th birthday."
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> https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituary/?utm_source=daily&utm_m
On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 at 07:19, Adriaan van Os wrote:
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> There are still a few changes I want to make, before putting it on github.
> However, I can send you
> the current code by private email.
No, thank you. I am not much of a programmer myself and I would not be
able to read it.
I wanted to s
On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 08:57, Adriaan van Os via fpc-pascal
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> It might interest you that I ported the Oberon-0 compiler, from the book
> Compiler Construction, to
> FreePascal.
It does indeed! Is that FOSS? Is the code anywhere online?
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https://github.com/mikewarot/OberonSystem3FP
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This is Mike Warot's bending of Oberon System 3 (also known as ETH
Oberon) to fit with his odd tastes.
It's no longer compatible with the Oberon+ compiler, IDE and runtimes
and the OBX Platform Abstraction Layer (PAL), and thus truly
cross-platform (
«
A recent poll on the Lazarus/FPC forum highlighted a fact: pascal
coders are older than most coders. Usually, at our age, we should be
managers, not developers. But we like coding in pascal. It is still
fun after decades!
But does it mean that you should not use pascal for any new project?
Are th
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 15:01, geneb via fpc-pascal
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> Liam, the things you write are pretty consise and clear
I think my editor would choke on his tea to read me called "concise"!
>- the linked
> article however...it's like it was written by someone forced to do it for
> a homework assig
On Thu, 19 Jan 2023 at 11:21, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal
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> thank you Liam for sharing it... also thank you for the FreeDOS interview
> shared
> on The Register! :)
Oh, you are very welcome. I am glad some people enjoyed it.
I mainly work in the Linux/Unix world and there are more and m
Why Object Pascal is More Than Meets the Eye: Exploring the Power and
Versatility of Delphi and FreePascal
https://blog.rosseaux.net/post/a346cfec6211430a62c28e765710954d/Why_Object_Pascal_is_More_Than_Meets_the_Eye-_Exploring_the_Power_and_Versatility_of_Delphi_and_FreePascal
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On Tue, 31 May 2022 at 04:12, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
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> A truly great language would be Turbo Pascal 5.5 (with OOP) plus
> function/procedure references.
Oberon?
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Oberon
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On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 15:53, geneb wrote:
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> Liam, I think you're mixing the language with the framework.
>
> I'll be the first person to agree with you that doing a gui application in
> Delphi (and realistically, any RAD environment) can be intimidating if you
> don't know that you're looking a
On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 15:26, Bart via fpc-pascal
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> So, if you're on Windows, *nix or a Mac, my advice is to use Lazarus
> as your IDE of choice.
I see where you are coming from, I think, but I can relate to the OP.
I played with Pascal at university, and in my first job -- I wrote a
Qu
On Wed, 24 Feb 2021 at 21:24, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal
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> 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!
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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
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2020 at 19:25, wrote:
> As you may know, Niklaus Wirth developed Oberon as a successor of Pascal.
> Its near identical to Pascal, just yet another name.
Indeed. There is a somewhat active mailing list over on:
ETH Oberon and related systems
As I understand it, Wirth had some fai
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 22:11, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
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> 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. Comb
On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 10:56, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
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> On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote:
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> FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years...
Sorry about this. I did not get this email, only the replies to it.
I was unaware of that!
Is this conversion
https://github.com/magiblot/tvision
Someone enterprising could make a TurboPascal clone out of FPC. :-)
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On Sat, 21 Nov 2020 at 17:33, Florian Klämpfl via fpc-pascal
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> L1 cache is typically only a few ten kB, L2 several hundred kB, L3
> several MB.
Some real-world comparisons in human units:
https://gist.github.com/hellerbarde/2843375
https://www.pcgamer.com/heres-a-neat-trick-for-underst
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