I truly wish Borland, or whoever they are now, would relinquish their patent/copyright on Pascal. I used in a long time ago when I was in college. It was a really neat little language. I still remember a lot of it. I would really like to see something like Visual Pascal .Net. I know that won't happen, but it's nice to dream a little now and then.
+1. Delphi is probably as close as you are going to get. A colleague of mine and I wrote code in Delphi for nearly 18 years and it worked. When it was first released, it was far more powerful than VB3 and produced very tight code and applications that were easy to distribute.
Controls were a bit limited, but usually you could work around that. Give it a shot.
I was going to say... Delphi is Visual Pascal... or as close as you are going to get. Pascal was my first real language (after learning BASIC, and LOGO)... Those were the days...
I was going to say... Delphi is Visual Pascal... or as close as you are going to get. Pascal was my first real language (after learning BASIC, and LOGO)... Those were the days...
-tg1
My very first language was GWBasic on an IBM PC. Then came Assembly, which I flopped. After that was COBOL. It was a breeze. Finally came C. No + or ++ then. The instructor got hung on pointers for ages. I didn't get much from the class. Somewhere in there, I bought Borland Turbo Pascal 6. DOS based, like everything was at the time.
Then came Windows 3.1 and VB1. The rest is history.
I still have the 720K 3.5" floppy with TP6.
I just looked at some Delphi samples. Looks like Pascal to me.
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When I was a senior in high school I took a course in Fortran. I learned Basic on a TRS 80 a couple years later and then left programming alone until mid 2005 when I started learning VB.NET 2003. I learned a little bit of Visual C#. Those are the only languages I have any experience in. I'm using Visual Basic 2008 now and plan on sticking with it for the time being. Once my present project is complete which is in VB2008 I might consider learning more C# and programming in that in the future or possibly moving into some language that would be especially good for computer graphics.
Make as many mistakes as you can as quickly as you can. We want to make sure that we make a great enough number of mistakes in a given amount of time so that we can be successful.
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Fortran is awesome. My mate asked me to write a quick commandline tool for him to read a few number from a file and spit them out in a different order. He asked me on March 31st and I gave him the fortran source code the next day. He was miffed because he had expected it to be in C instead. Oh how I laughed.
TP6?! Wow... light years ahead of me... I had TP2.0 ... on 5.25" floppies....
My progression went something like this:
Apple BASIC
LOGO
PC BASIC
Pascal
C
Ada
COBOL
Assembler
Then came the progrssions through VB, SQL was picked up in there somewhere, as was HTML, PHP, and now .NET... man, how things have changed in the last 25 years....
Pascal was a neat language in its day. It was one of the first 2 languages I learned. It's not very relevant any more since the new Microsoft and Sun languages pummel it. I liked COBOL quite a bit too actually but Im not sure how much use a Visual COBOL would be either.
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You mean we've all been experiencing the great joy of using MS DOS and Windows.
Make as many mistakes as you can as quickly as you can. We want to make sure that we make a great enough number of mistakes in a given amount of time so that we can be successful.
"Persistence is the magic of success." Paramahansa Yogananda
When you know each instruction of the micro-processor, you merge with the chip.
But, when they change the microprocessor, you have to change your machine language code to adjust for that. Then when you change that, it can disrupt the higher-level languages and compliers and they have to be changed as well.
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