Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

On 28/12/2022 07:12, Christo Crause via fpc-pascal wrote: On Tue, Dec 27, 2022 at 6:47 PM Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal > wrote: My idea is to implement a web page system where syntax highlight code is presented like in the Lazarus IDE, and specia

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

On 29/12/2022 13:34, Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal wrote: On 29 December 2022 13:31:57 +0100, Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal wrote: Hello Anthony, . . I suggest you either brush up on these subjects or refrain from scolding people on subjects with which you have no practical experience. Yo

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

On 29/12/2022 15:43, wkitty42--- via fpc-pascal wrote: turned out they were doing basic SQL queries for these reports to get "views" of the data that wasn't available in the specific reports i had been tasked to write... things were headed into a more "freeform" format... they basically needed

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

On 31/12/2022 08:37, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500 @youngman "I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL and oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..." I'll say this: It certainly doesn't he

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

On 31/12/2022 00:41, Dennis Lee Bieber via fpc-pascal wrote: Well, I understand it was originally called SEQL, E for English, but SEQUEL - Structured English QUEry Langauge. At the time SQL was being developed, every database system had its own proprietary programming language