Re: GIMP 3.0.0-RC1

On 2/9/25 1:08 PM, rbowman wrote:

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.
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    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.

   Turbo was VERY turbo compared to anything else on
   the market at the time. It plus the little IDE,
   you could REALLY cruise through development. There
   is something about Pascal that makes really fast
   compact compilers easy. Mikroe still offers
   MikroPascal for its PIC/AVR development systems.