JDuntemann

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   by JDuntemann 10y ago

   Actually, in some respects it was that book that made my reputation, not vise versa. I wrote it when I was just getting into second gear writing technical articles in the magazines. I was introduced to a book acquisitions editor at Scott, F
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   by JDuntemann 10y ago

   I was paid for that book four separate times, and made plenty of money on it. I want FreePascal and Lazarus to be better known than they are; hell, I want Pascal to just keep its place in that Great Big Bag o' Programming Languages. On
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   by JDuntemann 10y ago

   It's about due, but until the publisher decides to update it, I don't get to update it. There are length issues: I'd like to spend another 100 pages covering 64-bit issues, but there's a hard limit of 600 pages on the bo
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   by JDuntemann 10y ago

   I loved Pascal instantly because my first language was mainframe APL, followed by some weird in-house macroassembler that Xerox was using on its 8080-based business boxes. Compared to APL, Pascal is not only elegant but transcendent. Verbos