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by Tozen 5y ago
I also disagree with your assessment. Pascal has greater readability in comparison to C, so it's "weirdness" is in the sense that it's more verbose. Arguably, the inherent problem of C family languages is their tersene
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by Tozen 5y ago
I agree with you. It would look more like Pascal and Ada because of readability. Many languages look like or are way too easy to turn into cryptic chicken scratch, that even confuses the person that wrote it when they return to it after a
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by Tozen 5y ago
It's actually a good idea that more employees should do, to make sure they aren't getting shafted by the company they work for. It's long been a foul game, where various biases and prejudices of management and ownership lead
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by Tozen 5y ago
Java and C# are very "corporate languages". Microsoft and Sun/Oracle have done well in their marketing and manipulations. The usual philosophy is that it's easier to find programmers that know those languages, so it sh
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by Tozen 5y ago
LOL, you are right, such a silly typo. I was actually playing around with VLC player at that time, so must have got "crossed wires".
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by Tozen 5y ago
There are actually a few Pascal to JavaScript transpilers. Free Pascal/Lazarus has one, and then there is Smart Pascal that comes from DWScript. For that matter, there are a some other languages that have transpilers to JavaScript or
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by Tozen 5y ago
Pas2JS already exists in the Free Pascal world. You can make applications with it. https://wiki.freepascal.org/pas2js Also there are other Pascal to JavaScript transpilers, which use other dialects of Object Pascal, such a
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by Tozen 5y ago
Seems like you are a bit mistaken, as Object Pascal borrowed very little from C, nor did it need to. Object Pascal is just an extension of Pascal. Objects and Classes are just another type, just like Records. The relationship between Pas
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by Tozen 5y ago
Unix came from AT&T, who then their people created C (primarily to be used with Unix) and then C++. All other languages didn't really have a chance. The only other language that could of had a chance of derailing the use of C on U
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by Tozen 5y ago
I would say that is an oversimplification. People use Delphi, but it's not aimed at hobbyists, independent developers, or arguably even small businesses. Embarcadero (owner of Delphi) goes for the deep pockets and the enterprise. Th
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by Tozen 5y ago
You might want to look at Delphi's VLC and FireMonkey. With Free Pascal/Lazarus, they have the LCL (open source equivalent to VLC). Free Pascal/Lazarus has no problem with Linux or macOS. It was Delphi that stumbled around
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by Tozen 5y ago
The Pascal community has to be thankful for the creation of the open source project of Free Pascal/Lazarus and to a degree the Russian created PascalABC. There are some others, but these are ones still here and viable. The open sourc
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by Tozen 5y ago
Borland sold their software division to Embarcadero, which appears to have been a big payday for top execs as they jumped out. However, Embarcadero did do a decent job of keeping the ship afloat and running things, though Delphi got very e
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by Tozen 5y ago
TIOBE ranks Delphi/Object Pascal above Go and Rust. I don't quite get this odd behavior of so quickly labeling a language as "dead" and devoid of any evidence to back up the claim. In the case of Pascal and Ada, various
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by Tozen 5y ago
Very true. Many people don't realize how Pascal evolved into Object Pascal, and how it's such a strong alternative to C++, C#, Objective-C, Java, etc...
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by Tozen 5y ago
This is a bit deceptive, because we could always go back to writing in assembly language. The point of scripting languages are usually to make creating programs easier, requiring fewer lines and time to create. There are different aspects
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by Tozen 5y ago
Yet another reason to use Pascal. More people need to do their part to save the planet by writing efficient code, that is also safer, more readable, and more maintainable.
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by Tozen 5y ago
As a personal choice, would rather use Vlang than Nim. Like the potential and what I'm seeing from Vlang, though was hoping the cross-platform UI would be further along. As it is, they are developing quite quickly.
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by Tozen 5y ago
Maybe look at using Android for the desktop. Example Android-x86 ( https://www.android-x86.org/ ) and others. The thing is, many people are already using Android for their smartphone. The jump to laptop or desktop is argua
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by Tozen 5y ago
Yeah, it's kind of odd, where you would think Microsoft should know better. Wondering what Microsoft might be thinking is the "ace up their sleeve" to prevent court actions against them again. Wondering if it's all the
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by Tozen 5y ago
Well, until the LibreOffice Foundation gets a bit smarter or greater business support from some heavy hitters. Microsoft relying on Office is on shaky ground. People arguably use MS Office out of habit and since it's a forced de facto
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by Tozen 5y ago
Surprise, surprise. Microsoft being the big bully on the block, and being slick about allowing users to freely choose what browser they want to use. If a person doesn't use Edge by default, then there might be trouble and for any wor
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by Tozen 5y ago
Good point. And you don't have to go that low. Maybe go use Object Pascal, Nim, or Vlang. I know... the libraries. But a lot of them are bindings of C libraries. So, you can create bindings in other languages too or use Python from
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by Tozen 5y ago
Very true and a good post. Many managers and companies will go bananas if an employee wants to "program" any custom solutions for repetitive processes or for perceived efficiency. Then on the flip side, if the same employee gets
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by Tozen 5y ago
It's a very crowded field out there for smartphones, especially expensive ones. Hope their marketing team is up to the challenge.
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by Tozen 5y ago
I kind of disagree, because what I often see is people causing more difficulties for themselves than if they made the jump to Access, SQL, or even building an application. There is arguably a kind of limit to how far one should take using E
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by Tozen 5y ago
UiPath (and similar) as a "no code" solution is a bit of a joke (on those that don't know any better). Don't get me wrong, I think it's a good application for automating processes or certain types of jobs, but a lo
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by Tozen 5y ago
I'm not sure where the "confusion" about your options is coming from because Delphi (Object Pascal) still exists. You can get the Free Community Edition from here- https://www.embarcadero.com/products/de
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by Tozen 5y ago
So after poisoning thousands of people (including children that will suffer for life), somehow nearly no punishment to those responsible. Imagine how corrupt a system must be to allow those involved in poisoning thousands of people to get
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by Tozen 5y ago
Many school systems still teach Pascal or Object Pascal (which includes Delphi). So this question is relative to the country that a person is talking about. South Africa, Jamaica, Russia, Brazil, Turkey, etc... use various dialects of Obj

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