[fpc-pascal]OT: An FPC program in LinuxFormat Magazine
James Mills
prologic at prologitech.com
Tue Mar 25 13:13:10 CET 2003
On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 08:26:16AM +0100, Anton Tichawa wrote:
> On Monday 24 March 2003 23:16, you wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 04:17:28PM +0100, Florian Klaempfl wrote:
> > > A.J. Venter wrote:
> > > >Just in case anybody needs some ammo against people who think pascal is
> > > >dead.
> > > >This months Linux format includes AJ's Internet Cafe For LTSP (now
> > > >DireqCafe) which was written in FPC.
> > > >Just goes to show, aint no proble it can't solve.
> > > >
> > > >And before anybody acuses me of just downright spamming, yes I am the
> > > >A.J. that wrote it, and no I am not trying to make anybody buy it, it's
> > > >GPL anyway.
> > > >In case you do care, akinimod.sf.net, otherwize just ignore the post.
> > > >
> > > >A.J.
> > >
> > > I think such a posting isn't off topic and it's interessting to hear
> > > about such things :)
> >
> > Absolutely. A lot of (up-them-selves) programmers tend to believe that
> > pascal is a dead language, a language for kids. I'm happy to read of
> > such a post. Just as a matter of interest, pascal might be an old
> > language, a strongly typed language, but it is certainly NOT dead and
> > any of my software engineer lecturers will agree with it's use as a
> > language for developing software.
> >
> > my 2 cents...
>
> btw - please can you explain that idiom - "my 2 cents"? thanx.
Would it sound better as: my contribution ?
cheers
James
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