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

[Markus Greim]

Wow..


I am impressed... I hope my PASCAL is better then my English (first foreign language: Latin (for 7
years), 2nd English (6 years), 3rd ancient Greek (3 years)...) 


Programming languages I worked with in the last 40 years: 


1. Basic first on a Tektronix 4050 and a TRS-80 about 1979
2. Fortran batch jobs on a CDC Cyber 205 
3. PASCAL first on a DEC VAX 780 about 1986
4. PDC Prolog on MS-DOS
5. Assembler 
6. C
8. Perl and others on Linux from 1998
9. Java
10. Python 
11. PHP
12. SPIN
....
n. ERLANG <- most recently


aside FORTRAN I earned some money programming in all languages above..


Totally off topic, but it is Christmas time..

Kind Regards


Markus

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On December 22, 2020, 1:03 PM GMT+1 fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org wrote:

On Mon, 21 Dec 2020 at 22:11, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal
<fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:

>>

>> I don't know what non native english speakers are taught, nor can I address the folks across the pond, but here in the Us at least, has denotes currently exists, while had indicates past tense, I.E. no longer exists. Combining the two is where it gets dicy, and is generally avoided for syntactical reasons.


> FWIW... I'm (among other things) a qualified teacher of English as a

> second language. "Has had" and "had had" are 100% genuine correct

> English tenses, called the present perfect and past perfect

> respectively.


> Simple present: FPC _has_ a console-mode IDE -- now, it possesses one.

> Simple past: FPC _had_ a console-mode IDE -- it used to, but this

> state ended in the past; it no longer does.

> Present perfect: FPC _has had_ a console-mode IDE -- it has one, and

> the time it started to have one is a significant time ago.

> Past perfect: FPC _had had_ a console-mode IDE -- it used to have one

> a long time ago, but it stopped having it a long time ago.


> I will not itemise all the other alternatives. There is an informal

> competition as to how many tenses it is possible to create in English,

> and the record is some 120 different ones, and 144 if you include

> passive-voice constructions. There are about a dozen in common use.


> FPC has had a console-mode IDE means that there is one now and that

> there has been one for a considerable time. I presume this is what

> Nikolay meant. I did not know and I apologize for my ignorance of

> this.


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