[fpc-pascal] Quick Modern Object Pascal Introduction, for Programmers

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Michalis Kamburelis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> So, I wrote a document describing (quickly!) many features of the
> modern Object Pascal:)
> 
> Read on:
> 
> http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/modern_pascal_introduction/modern_pascal_introduction.html
> 
> http://michalis.ii.uni.wroc.pl/~michalis/modern_pascal_introduction/modern_pascal_introduction.pdf

Nicely done, a good practical approach

I'd suggest warning readers early about "dangling else", and using 
otherwise  rather than  else  in the  case  examples.

A private online service I use has somebody who still bears the scars of 
Olivetti attempting to write an operating system in (strict, unexpanded) 
Pascal. I think that Turbo Pascal came along a bit after that, but by 
then the damage was done.

It's unfortunate that there's a lot of C programmers who wouldn't dream 
of writing in K&R, but who still assume that Pascal is still as 
primitive as it was in the 1970s.

There's a few places where a native English author would have done 
things a bit differently. For example, in most places "Castle Game 
Engine" would probably be prefixed by "the", and also "it allows 
[something, what] to deal with cases when simple class inheritance is 
not enough".

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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