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Seems Pascal is having a field day today. Makes this old Pascal fan happy! The other piece is about Castle Game engine, written by the same author, Michalis Kam
by romaniitedomum 6y ago
Seems Pascal is having a field day today. Makes this old Pascal fan happy! The other piece is about Castle Game engine, written by the same author, Michalis Kamburelis.
About the only issue I'd take with this piece, and it's minor, is that it's slightly modified from the original and pushes the use of Delphi mode over the default ObjFPC mode in the Free Pascal compiler. To see the original:
https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html https://castle-engine.io/modern_pascal_introduction.html
While there's nothing wrong with preferring Delphi mode or ObjFPC mode, since the differences between them aren't that great [1], a piece that aims to describe the language should at least offer some rationale for a preference that is urged so strongly on readers.
But otherwise this is an excellent piece for anyone wondering what Pascal looks like in 2020.
[1] https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progap4.html#progse62.html https://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/prog/progap4.html#progs...