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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 07:25:49 UTC nixCraft 🐧

   Turbo Pascal turns 40. who here remembers this one?

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   • Harry Karadimas (harry_karadimas@toot.community)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 07:46:57 UTC Harry Karadimas

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     @nixCraft Remember that the guy who created Turbo Pascal later also architected Delphi (lesser known but really great (object) Pascal), still in use and available.

     And if you're a die hard fan, he also made C#, TypeScript, and he works for Microsoft now.

     https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 07:47:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Harry Karadimas

     I'll be checking out Free Pascal and Lazarus any year now.

     @harry_karadimas @nixCraft

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:15:10 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @nixCraft Our high school programming class was in Pascal. I'm assiming we used Turbo Pascal, because I can't name another compiler from that time. =)
   • Mac_CZ 🇦🇶 (mac_cz@mastodon.macsnet.cz)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:36:59 UTC Mac_CZ 🇦🇶

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     @nixCraft Wow, that's a lot of comments. So many old people here.

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   • Francesco P Lovergine (gisgeek@floss.social)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:37:09 UTC Francesco P Lovergine

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     @nixCraft Sigh, I even remember when it was 1.0, and compiled COM files only for DOS 2.11. I'm definitively not old, but ancient.

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 08:37:12 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Francesco P Lovergine

     @gisgeek The original .COM boom. 😁

     @nixCraft

   • David (dbg3d@masto.es)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 09:33:29 UTC David

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     @nixCraft I do.

     There is https://www.freepascal.org/ that sadly is getting not much love.

     But it has a really nice editor :

     https://www.lazarus-ide.org/

     If you play with it and see how fast compiles, the try to do something similar with C++, especially MSVC you wonder why C!/C++ got so freaking popular. 😠

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   • 0++0 (oddel@social.cologne)'s status on Friday, 01-Dec-2023 09:33:42 UTC 0++0

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     @nixCraft
     It was in 1985, when a colleague gifted me the book and the floppy. (Buying the book gave you a licence). Later I wrote a program to learn any language with. It compiled on Windows to a .com program. When MS phased out .com programs, I had to convert it to some Free pascal version, who could compile .exe progs. Still usable under Win 10.

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   • Ronald (ronald@mastodon.nl)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:56:47 UTC Ronald

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     @nixCraft I worked with it. Still work a lot with Delphi and Lazarus/FreePascal.

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   • Jan B. (feliscatus@nrw.social)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:56:53 UTC Jan B.

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     @nixCraft ...now I have to go down to the basement and see if the old floppies with the source code from my school days are still readable! Thanks for that! 😂

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   • Sven/Sarah (pascaldragon@metalhead.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:00 UTC Sven/Sarah

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     @nixCraft still working with Pascal, though not Turbo Pascal I had started with, but Free Pascal and even working on the compiler 😁

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   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:02 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sven/Sarah

     @pascaldragon Username checks out. 🤣

     @nixCraft

   • Photor (photor@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:07 UTC Photor

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     @pascaldragon oh nice. But this Atari is not existing anymore, unfortunately.

     But all this ended at FPC and Lazarus (on Linux). So, life is a cycle. 😀

     @nixCraft @blub

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   • Sven/Sarah (pascaldragon@metalhead.club)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:08 UTC Sven/Sarah

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     @Photor @nixCraft @blub at least FPC can also be used on Atari ST 😁 (though I don't know whether the IDE is usable yet 🤔)

   • Photor (photor@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:09 UTC Photor

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     On Atari ST? Possible?

     Later replaced by Turbo C - because new, better, the thing to have.

     Then latter even on ST it was possible to use gcc (legally).

   • MattiP 🤡🃏🧌🚩 (mattip@mastodon.common.se)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:19 UTC MattiP 🤡🃏🧌🚩

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     @nixCraft Those early Borland things had great help files with examples of how functions worked. I learn quite a lot from those in Turbo Pascal and Turbo C++.

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   • Iron Bug (iron_bug@friendica.ironbug.org)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:21 UTC Iron Bug

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     @nixCraft I do. though, I preferred C then, already. I hated °begin-end' thing, found it really weird to count iterators from 1 and didn't like awkward work with pointers in Pascal. so since I was about 12, I switched to C and still write in C.
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   • Michael Labbé (michaellabbe@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 02-Dec-2023 10:57:25 UTC Michael Labbé

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     @nixCraft Such a great stepping stone after qbasic. I shipped a useful tool exe on local BBSes after just two weeks. The convenient inline assembly opened a very important door for me, too.

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   • jorgen (jorgen@hachyderm.io)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 12:17:26 UTC jorgen

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     @nixCraft I cut my teeth on Turbo C++, but I did some Turbo Pascal after some evangelization by friends.

     I couldn't stand the chatty syntax of Pascal, so I went back to Turbo C++. :)

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   • Matthias (mattssp@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Wednesday, 06-Dec-2023 12:17:38 UTC Matthias

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     @nixCraft I learned to code with this... it came with a shelf of printed documentation.

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