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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an... by msla on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:00AM (#19896337)
> great backwards compatibility

How good was Delphi at hiding MS-DOS quirks? I know C from that platform tended to be nonstandard with near and far pointers to accommodate memory segmentation, but was Delphi any better?

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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an... by bitwize on Monday May 13, 2019 @12:06AM (#19896358)
Delphi was a Windows-only product. Delphi 1 and its predecessor, Turbo Pascal, only supported far pointers to data, and could support far or near procedure calls with an annotation (essentially, a compiler pragma).
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Re:Awesome Pascal – A curated list of Delphi, FreePascal, an... by acqq on Monday May 13, 2019 @03:52AM (#19897056)
> only supported far pointers to data

Which meant that as long as you didn't have to call C functions you just had to know and write that "it's a pointer" and nothing more.

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