Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal postscript reading library

2008-04-20 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho schrieb: Hello, I did some googling, and I think there is none, but just in case ... does anyone know a pascal library to read postscript files? Preferably open source. Liberal licensing (linking to proprietary code) is indispensable. If not then there will be one in

Re: [fpc-pascal] Trim db-fieldnames, or not?

2008-04-20 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 19/04/2008, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That is just sick! > > > It is. > Courtesy of MS-Access users... That was the first to support it, AFAIK. > (although access uses [] instead of "", as far as I remember) That's is sick! And yes, MS-Access uses the square brackets

Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal postscript reading library

2008-04-20 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 6:42 AM, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > PS is really complex, it's a full programming language after all. I would > consider a Ghostscript wrapper. The problem is that you have to buy it for non-GPL projects, but thanks a lot for the tip, I will evaluate if

Re: [fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

2008-04-20 Thread greim
Lets hear what the old fathers told us... when Linus Torvalds was still running around the Christmas tree Niklaus Wirth, Algorithms and Data Structures 1985 (Oberon version: August 2004, afaik first published 1975 in German) (Regarding pointers and goto statements..) ...This phenomenon

Re: [fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

2008-04-20 Thread Andreas Berger
mm wrote: Zaher Dirkey a écrit : I hate exit when i try to improve a procedure some code if (b) then exit; some code for long procedures i cant notice exit here and add some resource or memory uses AnObject := TAnObject.Create; try some code if (b) then exit; some code finally

Re: [fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

2008-04-20 Thread Andreas Berger
C provides the infinitely-abusable goto statement, and labels to branch to. Formally the goto is never necessary and in practice it is almost always easy to write code without it. We have not used goto in this book. Nonetheless , we will suggest a few situations where goto's may find a pla

Re: [fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

2008-04-20 Thread Zaher Dirkey
I am not like break(x) it also make improvement my procedure was sensitive, i must count how many loop i have in, and i must care if i added a new loop around the code that looped (hmm bad english). On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Andreas Berger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > C provides

Re: [fpc-pascal] Trim db-fieldnames, or not?

2008-04-20 Thread Marc Weustink
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 19/04/2008, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is just sick! It is. Courtesy of MS-Access users... That was the first to support it, AFAIK. (although access uses [] instead of "", as far as I remember) That's is sick! And yes, MS-Access uses

Re: [fpc-pascal] The reason why linus torvalds hate-pascal

2008-04-20 Thread Vinzent Hoefler
On Sunday 20 April 2008 19:21, Andreas Berger wrote: > About break. I would like to see an implementation of Break(x) where > x is the number of loops to break out of. > Correction: I would not like this, I would LOVE it. Oh, another Adaism trying to creep into Pascal...? :D But let me revisit y