[fpc-pascal] Re: What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

[Noa Shiruba]

Sven,

Wow, you should buy him a book on Delphi.  I would say on FPC, but the main FPC book is only to be had by mail order - I keep hoping they will offer it in Kindle format or such.

  -- Noah 

On 2012/02/28, at 18:05, Sven Barth <pascaldragon at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am 28.02.2012 08:22, schrieb Noah Silva:
>> Well ObjectPascal has been around since the early 90s at least, and from
>> an end-user point of view, pascal became primarily Object Oriented with
>> TurboVision and later Delphi in the mid 90s - so anyone who doesn't know
>> about that is severely misinformed.  I am not sure that changing the
>> name will make up for that.
>> 
> 
> To stress this a bit: around two weeks ago I told my "program optimization" teacher (who's the head of the "programing languages" chair) about Free Pascal (and Delphi) and he didn't know that Pascal "already" supports OOP... :(
> 
> Regards,
> Sven
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