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I remember Pascal from highschool. It's a pretty good language, hard to believe it's 50 years old already. I remember how impressive it was that multiple differ
by Sunspark 6y ago
I remember Pascal from highschool. It's a pretty good language, hard to believe it's 50 years old already. I remember how impressive it was that multiple different implementations existed, not just the the famous one from Borland, Turbo Pascal, but also the fact that it was implemented on 8 bit computers.
It's a real language. Skype for Windows was originally written in the Delphi dialect.
- snarfy 6y agoIf you are doing any native Windows development and also need to interact with a lot of COM objects and apis it's really hard to beat Delphi. It's so much nicer than dealing with C++ and WTL.
- bloblaw 6y agoAgree++ The "WMI Delphi Code Creator" (written in Delphi) is a great example of this. "The WMI Delphi Code Creator (WDCC), allows you to generate Object Pascal, Oxygene, C++ and C# code to access the WMI (Windows Management Instrumentation) classes, events and methods. Also includes a set of tools to explorer and Query the content of the WMI." Note that Object Pascal == Delphi == FreePascal (generally) https://github.com/RRUZ/wmi-delphi-code-creator https://github.com/RRUZ/wmi-delphi-code-creator
- pjmlp 6y agoAlso a note that the original Object Pascal was created for Mac OS, before Borland took up the term and Apple's extensions.