[fpc-pascal] TurboVision is reborn as FOSS (again)

[rvmartin2 at ntlworld.com]

Sven Barth via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote the following on 21/12/2020, 13:13:08:
> Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> schrieb am
> Mo., 21. Dez. 2020, 11:36:
> 
> >
> > On 12/21/20 10:42 AM, Markus Greim wrote:
> >
> > ....FPC has had a Turbo Pascal-like console IDE for many years...
> >
> > "has had" ?
> >
> > AKAIK "has"
> >
> > I still used it yesterday.
> >
> > English is not my native language, but I think "has had" means it still
> > has it. If I had said "had" instead of "has had", it would mean it had it
> > in the past, but no longer has it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> 
> That's how I was taught it as well (with English not being my first
> language): "has had" means that the "having" started in the past and holds
> till now. "had had" would mean that it started in the past and ended
> somewhere less in the past and "had" alone is a specific point in the past.

"has had" is correct and good English.
Bob Martin in England