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Ok, I just made the repository public, in case anyone is curious: https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC

by _tom_ 6y ago

ryandrake 6y ago
Nice, I remember vividly being 11 years old and typing this line by line into a Commodore 64, carefully reading it from a ragged copy of “101 BASIC Computer Games”. Took me three days to get it right. I slept next to the computer so my dad wouldn’t turn it off by mistake. Later ended up porting it to Pascal and adding graphics, in an attempt to learn the language.
- benibela 6y ago
  I still write almost all my code in Pascal Why am I wasting time on Pascal?
  - mysterydip 6y ago
    If Pascal does the job, why not?
  - butterisgood 6y ago
    There are modern iOS games written in Delphi last time I looked around. I've been spending a little time with ActiveOberon, which might look familiar to a Pascal user. It's an interesting language and environment. Reminds me of Smalltalk the way the platform works (or Pharo for a modern Smalltalk environment), except you absolutely can create more "native" binaries for your environment with it. ActiveOberon might be one of the first places async/.await style concurrency was implemented. It definitely predates Rust by a bit. The Fox compiler is an interesting beast too! They're still working on the language. The tip of their SVN tree has enhancements over the language report that was published in 2019 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 Now there's ternary conditionals, functors (per C++, not Category Theory) etc. Last update to the repo was 11 days ago. It's very much alive it seems :-)
  - jes5199 6y ago
    Pascal was my first language, and I really miss some things about it that didn’t make it into the popular modern languages
stevekemp 6y ago
I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia: https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/gobasic

Ok, I just made the repository public, in case anyone is curious: https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC

by _tom_ 6y ago

Ok, I just made the repository public, in case anyone is curious: https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC https://github.com/cocode/TrekBASIC

ryandrake 6y ago

Nice, I remember vividly being 11 years old and typing this line by line into a Commodore 64, carefully reading it from a ragged copy of “101 BASIC Computer Games”. Took me three days to get it right. I slept next to the computer so my dad wouldn’t turn it off by mistake. Later ended up porting it to Pascal and adding graphics, in an attempt to learn the language.

benibela 6y ago
I still write almost all my code in Pascal Why am I wasting time on Pascal?
- mysterydip 6y ago
  If Pascal does the job, why not?
- butterisgood 6y ago
  There are modern iOS games written in Delphi last time I looked around. I've been spending a little time with ActiveOberon, which might look familiar to a Pascal user. It's an interesting language and environment. Reminds me of Smalltalk the way the platform works (or Pharo for a modern Smalltalk environment), except you absolutely can create more "native" binaries for your environment with it. ActiveOberon might be one of the first places async/.await style concurrency was implemented. It definitely predates Rust by a bit. The Fox compiler is an interesting beast too! They're still working on the language. The tip of their SVN tree has enhancements over the language report that was published in 2019 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2 Now there's ternary conditionals, functors (per C++, not Category Theory) etc. Last update to the repo was 11 days ago. It's very much alive it seems :-)
- jes5199 6y ago
  Pascal was my first language, and I really miss some things about it that didn’t make it into the popular modern languages

stevekemp 6y ago

I wrote a simple BASIC too, for nothing more than a sense of nostalgia: https://github.com/skx/gobasic https://github.com/skx/gobasic