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Pascal killed my interest in programming for a while as it was force fed in both high school and earlier collage years. Reflecting back, it was the pessimistic approach to teaching of just pushing math problems via programming.
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yes, i believe delphi rad studio has c++ compiler and the libraries are written in pascal, it is a lineage from c++ builder.
https://cppcast.com/cpp-builder/ - this is the podcast where embarcadero devs tell about how they maintain number of patches to llvm's compiler to make it compatible with necessary non-standard features like closures. this also tells us that c++ became so big and complicated that one company (embarcadero size company) is not able anymore to support own compiler, they need to maintain own patches.
I hate the insane pricing Embarcado has imposed on Delphi. They have had cross platform GUIs in Delphi for a long time. Something for some reason other tools struggle and mostly fail to do.
I have not been able to "sell" it to clients mostly due to price.
Pascal killed my interest in programming for a while as it was force fed in both high school and earlier collage years. Reflecting back, it was the pessimistic approach to teaching of just pushing math problems via programming.
It is a beautiful language.
https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pas...
Personally I read the programmer manual for FP. You can do both Object Pascal OOP and Delphi OOP. Wild. Also nice units for doing mmap and all libc stuff. I really ought to finish learning Pascal and actually write something in it. Not a bad language.
not only libc. what is very cool is that most of the parts of very rich fpc library has no libc dependency. so necessary parts get linked statically to the resulting binaries, and those binaries do not require libc. most of the library goes with roots to kernel calls, bypassing libc. once you start using threads or link to other c libraries (like gtk) then libc becomes a dependency.
Maybe when I am done with my compiler (written in D), I'll write something fun and small like that in Pascal. Who knows! But I love FPC!
Pascal killed my interest in programming for a while as it was force fed in both high school and earlier collage years. Reflecting back, it was the pessimistic approach to teaching of just pushing math problems via programming.
At the time, I remember pascal feeling like "real programming". The programs were compiled and they operated at various levels of abstraction, from pointers up through advanced data structures and interfaces/ADTs. I didn't see Scheme as more than a toy, which was partly because the MIT Scheme implementation was just an interpreter. And I hated Basic and still do.
Pascal was great because it was pretty easy to learn and somewhat consistent. Its most annoying feature, semicolon-as-separator, was easily handled by the terrific Think pascal editor.
In its time, Pascal was a great choice. There were real-world things that you could do immediately using Think Pascal and Turbo Pascal. Making the switch to C and Unix wasn't simple but probably easier than starting with Basic. However, I was left with a bias towards wordy languages like Pascal, Ada and Modula-3 that took a while to get over :)
Pascal gets an underserved bad reputation. I am showing my age but Turbo Pascal was (is) great. Extensions from Turbo and Delphi Object Pascal is great as well. I hate the insane pricing Embarcado has imposed on Delphi. They have had cross platform GUIs in Delphi for a long time. Something for some reason other tools struggle and mostly fail to do. I have not been able to "sell" it to clients mostly due to price.
Pascal gets an underserved bad reputation. I am showing my age but Turbo Pascal was (is) great. Extensions from Turbo and Delphi Object Pascal is great as well. I hate the insane pricing Embarcado has imposed on Delphi. They have had cross platform GUIs in Delphi for a long time. Something for some reason other tools struggle and mostly fail to do. I have not been able to "sell" it to clients mostly due to price.
I remember that Pascal was the norm for Mac programming for a time during the late 1980s or so. You could use THINK Pascal (later Symantec) or MPW Pascal. Pretty soon everyone was programming in C and compiling their programs with Metrowerks CodeWarrior.