Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 03:18:54 -0500, WokieSux282@ud0s4.net wrote:

   For the record, I just LOVE Pascal ... still do lots of apps small
   and large in FPC/Lazarus. May proto in Python, but often the goal is
   to re-do it in Pascal.
 
   SOME languages are a little TOO much 'ideology'.
 
   Wirth managed to balance the equation. Both ideology AND very
   practical.
 
   I started using Pascal back with the pink-label multi-pass IBM
   compilers. Never went back. 'C' is Just Great - but Pascal is far
   more easy to *understand* and is just 'elegant'.

Pascal treated me well :)  It was used as a didactic language at
University of Maine and the Sprague Electric plant at Sanford ME tended to
hire engineers from there. For whatever its virtues process control or
manipulating a robot arm with 5 degrees of freedom weren't among them. I
was contracted to develop modules, dlls, or whatever the Pascal term was
to bridge the gap.

 

   STILL have a VM of DOS with the multi-pass Pascal compiler - and DO
   stuff in it from time to time.

https://www.freepascal.org/


I did buy Borland TurboPascal for CP/M mostly because I was curious what
$50 would get you. It was so much faster than the BDS C compiler I thought
something went wrong with my 'hello world' attempt.