Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers
by visarga on Monday July 04, 2016 @12:02AM
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I agree about the IDE of Turbo Pascal, but Delphi 1.0 was pretty RAD too. Only thing I don't like about Pascal of 20 years ago was the lack of proper lists and dictionaries, and the tedium of writing long keywords like begin and end all over the place.
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Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers
by ViktorasM on Monday July 04, 2016 @02:02AM
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Ah, the days when I typed "begin" and "end" at the speed of puting a curly brace.
Don't actually feeling the need to go back though. It's not about language properties anymore, but the library ecosystem. I hated when anything useful in Delphi was a C dll port. You're never a first class citizen.
Re:Guide to modern Object Pascal for programmers
by leledumbo on Monday July 04, 2016 @02:26PM
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Good to know that many things are native Pascal nowadays, even some great Pascal people choose to either write from scratch or native porting instead of writing wrappers. Personally I don't mind using wrappers, but having native Pascal counterpart is better in the long run since no 3rd party implementation dependency required, things can be fixed and improved right away.