[fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

[Steve Litt]

Bart via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 16 Nov 2024 14:59:10 +0100

>On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
><fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org> wrote:
>
>
>> See this is what I don't understand. In the 7 years I used Turbo
>> Pascal professionally, I don't remember ever having to allocate or
>> free memory: I just declared variables. This was one of the big
>> advantages of Turbo Pascal over C.  
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>Well, then you never needed datastructures > 64k (IIRC).

I didn't.

>Even my addressbook (who didn't write one?) used GetMem/FreeMen or
>New/Dispose to allocate new records on the heap for that.

You're right. I never implemented a linked list or binary tree with
Turbo Pascal, or anything that used an arbitrary number of "things". I
always used C, Python or Perl for that kind of thing. So you're right
and I was wrong, Getmem/Freemem are very important.

SteveT

Steve Litt 

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