Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by iagovar on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:06PM
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A bit offtopic, but I recently discovered Lazarus, and I was pleasantly reminded that the language I learned in high school is still kicking.
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Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by AndrewDavis on Saturday February 20, 2021 @07:33PM
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Pascal was my first programming language at University (circa 2016). Alas in 2018 they succumbed to student feedback (university admin was big on that) complaining about learning a "dead language".
Missing the point that it is a brilliant teaching language for a beginner to learn fundamental concepts.
Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by unnouinceput on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:13PM
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Even better than that, it also runs natively on Raspberry Pi, so you can go down at bare metal on embedded projects.
You mean ObjPascal or the IDE?
Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by unnouinceput on Sunday February 21, 2021 @09:35AM
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Lazarus is the IDE. Free Pascal is the language. Both go together in Raspberry Pi without a problem. Create beautiful GUI that can run on touchscreen too. Use a $50 3.5 inch touchscreen + $35 RPi and you can have a beautiful IoT doing whatever you want.
Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by chadcmulligan on Saturday February 20, 2021 @06:39PM
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Delphi is also a commercial product still - I use it every day :-)
Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by jonpalmisc on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:52PM
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Can I ask what kind of projects you work on as a Delphi developer today? I loved using it back in the day but I understand the market for it is quite slim now.
I spent two decades as a Delphi contractor. Not doing it anymore, but I still see a lot of control software for industrial machinery and lab equipment (at least those made in EU), POS and kiosk software as well as custom ERP and ERP style software.
I am currently working on NIR spectrometer and I am actually thinking about using Lazarus for driving touch screen instead of web based dashboard.
For example this company uses Delphi on their software products,
https://www.lab-services.nl/en/home
In Germany, there are still conferences with Delphi contents (EKON 24 and BASTA), and some magazines have occasional Delphi content.
Re:Turbo Pascal Compiler in JavaScript
by chadcmulligan on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:29AM
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A lot of medical software was written in Delphi and still going - it was written by Doctors and grew.