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Weird anyone still uses this, I first saw Object Pascal on a Apple Lisa in 1983.

• badsectoracula 9y ago
  FWIW Apple's Object Pascal and modern Object Pascal have little common. Although i think Free Pascal does have a Mac Pascal mode so that it can understand Apple's Object Pascal dialect.
  • jetti 9y ago
    From what I've read Object Pascal is just another name for Delphi but without the trademark hassle.
    • oneweekwonder 9y ago
      No need to speculate[0]. The name "object pascal" was firstly used by apple for their dialect of pascal. Then Borland came and evolved Turbo Pascal into Object Pascal(and brand it Delphi) and then fpc came and branded them a open source object pascal implementation. As for Pascal vs Object Pascal, Procedural vs OOP, Think C vs C++(not that I'm saying c++ is better). [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_Pascal
      • jetti 9y ago
        From the wikipedia article: "Borland used the name Object Pascal for the programming language in the first versions of Delphi, but later renamed it to the Delphi programming language. However, compilers that claim to be compatible with Object Pascal are often trying to be compatible with Delphi source code.[citation needed] Because Delphi is trademarked, compatible compilers continued using the name Object Pascal" You're still right that Object Pascal can encompass more than just Delphi.