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Perhaps I should take some bigger examples of my private programming history. Those are often similar or better than my professional projects using these languages. And then AI should rate #style, #readability and #maintainability, perhaps room for optimization without loosing these criteria. The languages here would be #pascal, #perl, #python, #java, #smalltalk, #erlang and #golang. Should be interesting. And beside the different languages I would expect a reflection of my personal experience.

Heute gelernt: Obwohl beispielsweise im Smalltalk Buch von Strahringer und Kaufmann behauptet wird nil stünde „Not In List“, gilt als gesichert, dass die Angabe im bekannten Buch von Abelson und Sussman, es handele sich um eine Kontraktion von „nihil“ (lat. nichts), die korrekte Herleitung ist. #TIL #Scheme #Smalltalk #Oberon #Pascal

In 1979 BYTE magazine published The BYTE Book of Pascal, an anthology of articles about the language, comparisons with other languages, and lots of source code of programs ranging from Pascal compilers to utilities and games.

A fascinating account of an era when Pascal was still relatively new and promising and programmers were discovering what it could do.

archive.org/details/the-byte-b

Internet ArchiveThe Byte Book Of Pascal : Blaise W. Liffick : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet ArchiveA collection of 1970s articles in BYTE magazine about or using Pascal for microcomputers.From the back: This book not only provides a general introduction to...

Oh look - it's a new blog post, an introduction to the USCD p-System Editor, *written on* the UCSD Pascal Editor:
markbessey.blog/2025/04/29/ucs

Yes, this means that my #Rust #psystem utility can successfully copy files off of the emulator disk image, and convert them into Mac-formatted text, from the frankly bizarre format that's native to the text editor.

markbessey.blog · UCSD Pascal In Depth: EditorPart 1: The Editor Related: UCSD p-System InfoNote: This Blog Post was written in the USCD Pascal Editor, on an Apple II emulator. There may be a few more typos than usual. The p-System comes with …
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@ry @kalleboo Ooooh, Think Pascal.

Back in … 1989? a club colleague introduced me to the local uni’s computer lab, filled with Mac II. Base config, 13" color screen with 640x480 in 256 colors, with Hypercard and Think Pascal on it. And some word processor.

Coming from the Atari ST, the Mac II wasn’t much faster than what I had, and the GUI was theoretically similar.

But ThinkPascal felt sooo much more advanced due to the tight integration of its source level debugger into the IDE. On the ST, debuggers weren’t integrated yet into the UI, and were cumbersome to use.

So Think Pascals step-by-step debugger and variable inspection in windows were mind-blowing for me ("how to they do this in supervisor mode, and yet have full access to high-level OS/grafport/window calls?" -- little did I know how hacky System 6/7 were).

These memories.

“The #Delphi launch took place at the Miller Freeman Software Development Conference West in #SanFrancisco California, on Valentine’s Day, February 14th 1995 at 7PM just after #PhilippeKahn’s keynote “The Importance of #ObjectComputing – The Algorithmic Link”. Two editions of Delphi were announced: Delphi and Delphi Client/Server.”

#Borland / #Pascal / #RAD / #OO / #programming / #DavidIntersimone <blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/cel>

blog.davidi.comCelebrating the 30th Anniversary of Delphi version 1.0’s Launch – David I's Everything About Software Development (including the kitchen sink)

#Introduction

Greeting, I'm Sam. Basically I created this account and now access it via #Tor because I live in the US and fear for our safety, security, and privacy from our own government now. It's a disgrace.

I'm into old computers (#Retrocomputing) from the late 70s and early 80s, mostly #Commodore, #Atari, #Sinclair, #AppleII, (gotta specify the 'ii' else I'll get a bunch of modern apple junk), #Acorn, etc.

I know #BASICv2 and #6510ASM, along with modern #C, #Perl, #Pascal, etc. I've also wanted to relearn #Prolog (CP3...😜 )

I'm a straight male but I hope that doesn't matter as it doesn't matter to me what you are. I believe people deserve to live their lives, their way to be happy. No one is above others. It's when beliefs are pushed on others we have problems.

Thank you for taking the time to read this far and I guess I'm supposed to end with a "Like and subscribe", but I think here that means "Follow if you'd like". 😆

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@nixCraft
My high school didn’t have enough fancy 286 computers so some of us used original 8086 with just 384kb of ram? IDE (had to use #WordStar key bindings) was Turbo #Pascal 3.0 and I’d exit back to DOS to compile.

I volunteered to use the worst computer so the following semester I’d get first dibs on new (for the school) computers: 386 w/4MB ram. 😎