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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 22:32:51 -0500
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On 2/9/25 1:08 PM, rbowman wrote:
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 03:18:54 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:
> 
> 
>>     For the record, I just LOVE Pascal ... still do lots of apps small
>>     and large in FPC/Lazarus. May proto in Python, but often the goal is
>>     to re-do it in Pascal.
>>
>>     SOME languages are a little TOO much 'ideology'.
>>
>>     Wirth managed to balance the equation. Both ideology AND very
>>     practical.
>>
>>     I started using Pascal back with the pink-label multi-pass IBM
>>     compilers. Never went back. 'C' is Just Great - but Pascal is far
>>     more easy to *understand* and is just 'elegant'.
> 
> Pascal treated me well :)  It was used as a didactic language at
> University of Maine and the Sprague Electric plant at Sanford ME tended to
> hire engineers from there. For whatever its virtues process control or
> manipulating a robot arm with 5 degrees of freedom weren't among them. I
> was contracted to develop modules, dlls, or whatever the Pascal term was
> to bridge the gap.
> 
>   
>>     STILL have a VM of DOS with the multi-pass Pascal compiler - and DO
>>     stuff in it from time to time.
> 
> https://www.freepascal.org/
> 
> 
> I did buy Borland TurboPascal for CP/M mostly because I was curious what
> $50 would get you. It was so much faster than the BDS C compiler I thought
> something went wrong with my 'hello world' attempt.

   Turbo was VERY turbo compared to anything else on
   the market at the time. It plus the little IDE,
   you could REALLY cruise through development. There
   is something about Pascal that makes really fast
   compact compilers easy. Mikroe still offers
   MikroPascal for its PIC/AVR development systems.