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GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM

jpluimers jpluimers Indeed: DOOM in Pascal. Not Delphi: Free Pascal. Repository: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PascalCorpsman/FPC_DOOM: FPC Port of DOOM It is based on [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – fabiangreffrath/crispy-doom: Crispy Doom is a limit-removing enhanced-resolution Doom source port based… … Read more 1 week ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, Freepascal, ObjectPascal, pascal, Power User, Retrocomputing, Software Development 0

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File scoped namespaces – C# 10.0 draft specifications | Microsoft Learn

jpluimers jpluimers Oops, I thought this had been published a long time ago, but oh well: it is never too late to publish reflections on a C# programming language improvement. After recovering from my rectum cancer treatments… … Read more 2 months ago in .NET, 1509, 35690, 36566, 44201, About, C# 10, C++, Cancer, Delphi, Development, java, Java Platform, MSBUILD, pascal, Personal, Rectum cancer, region, Rider from JetBrains, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Visual Studio and tools, vscode Visual Studio Code 0

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Delphi “array of const” to “varargs” – Stack Overflow

jpluimers jpluimers Just in case I ever think “oh, I might try want to go the Variadic function arguments way in Delphi” again, I must remember “maybe not a good idea” and re-read these posts: [Wayback/Archive] Variadic… … Read more 3 months ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, Freepascal, pascal, Software Development 0

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From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube

jpluimers jpluimers Nice historic perspective: [Wayback/Archive] From Turbo Pascal to Delphi to C# to TypeScript, an interview with PL legend Anders Hejlsberg – YouTube Via [Wayback/Archive] Zack Urlocker on Twitter: “Great interview with @ahejlsberg on the evolution of… … Read more 3 months ago in .NET, Borland Pascal, C++, Delphi, Development, History, JavaScript/ECMAScript, MS-DOS, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, typescript, Windows Development 0

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Old programming books had cool little “puns” in their references, modern lack them in their indices. On the why, and history of them.

jpluimers jpluimers I wrote a two earlier blog posts around puns in programming book indices before: the 1992 Turbo Pascal 7.0 Language Guide having both entry in the manual about Recursion (“recursive loop, see recursive loop”) which… … Read more 6 months ago in .NET, 1, 7, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Delphi 1, Delphi 2, Development, ekon, Event, History, LaTeX, LifeHacker, Mathematics, pascal, Perl, PL/I (a.k.a. PL/1), Power User, science, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Typesetting 0

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Oh boy, VB.NET and JavaScript both have a `with` keyword too!

jpluimers jpluimers Last year, within a week, I saw two tweets of languages that, like Pascal, have a with statement as well: [Archive.is] Shawn Wildermuth 💻☕🎸🎥🎮 on Twitter: “JavaScript’s Forgotten Keyword (with)” [Archive.is] John Kaster #BlackLivesMatter on… … Read more 1 year ago in .NET, Delphi, Development, Go (golang), JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development, VB.NET, With statement 0

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Happy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos

jpluimers jpluimers Some of you might remember [WayBack] Borland – Wikipedia, that today in 1983 shipped the first version of Turbo Pascal [Wikipedia]. It was of great influence, leading to other Turbo languages, Delphi, and – through… … Read more 2 years ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal 0

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I first met Philippe Kahn and Turbo Pascal 40 years ago this month

David Intersimone David Intersimone In 1983, I was working for Softsel Computer Products (Softsel) in the product evaluation, support and training group. Softsel had a booth at the Fall 1983 COMDEX (Computer Dealer Expo) conference (November 28 to December… … Read more 2 years ago in android, borland, C++, Cal Poly SLO, cbuilder, Cloud, Code, COMDEX, database, Delphi, desktop, Embarcadero, Hello World, IDE, InterBase, ios, Kylix, linux, macos, Mobile, pascal, Philippe Kahn, programming, RAD Studio, Server, Softsel Computer Products, Spencer Leyton, Turbo Pascal, Win32, win64 0

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Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?”

jpluimers jpluimers For my link archive: [Wayback/Archive] Bruce Tate on Twitter: “What’s the most unique feature of your favorite programming language?” / Twitter From the languages that I have been using most: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on… … Read more 2 years ago in .NET, C++, Conference Topics, Conferences, Delphi, Development, Event, JavaScript/ECMAScript, pascal, Scripting, Software Development 0

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Marco Cantú wins the Niklaus Wirth Award for Most Value Contributor To Pascal

Ian Barker Ian Barker We are very pleased to announce that our very own Marco Cantú has been given the Niklaus Wirth Award by The International Pascal Congress hosted by The University of Salamanca in Spain. The citation from… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, International Pascal Congress, IPC, News, pascal, programming, RAD Studio 0

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International Pascal Congress in Salamanca

gabr42 gabr42 Dear fellow readers, I’d like to invite you to International Pascal Congress which will happen from 3rd to 7th July this year in beautiful Salamanca, Spain.(Not sure you want to go to Salamanca? Think again.)Although… … Read more 2 years ago in Delphi, pascal, presentations 0

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The Delphi and Turbo Pascal tools page by Duncan Murdoch has moved domain from www8.pair.com to murdoch-sutherland.com

jpluimers jpluimers For a very long time (about 2 decades) Duncan Murdoch had his home page at www8.pair.com/dmurdoch which somewhere in 2021 has moved to I figured that out thanks to some help from [Wayback/Archive] Pair Networks (@pairnetworks)… … Read more 3 years ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal 0

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On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues

jpluimers jpluimers Subtitle: GetFullPathName thread-unsafety because of SetCurrentDirectory isn’t, so derived functions (like Delphi GetDir/ChDir/TPath.GetFullPath, or .NET System.IO.Path.GetFullPath) are not thread-safe either (via The Old New Thing) A while ago I got a big reminder because of [Wayback]… … Read more 3 years ago in Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Windows Development 0

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10 Tell-Tale Signs You Need To Get A New Python Development Tool

Adam Leone Adam Leone Python is a general-purpose, high-level programming language which was first launched 31 years ago. It is known for its simplicity, readability, and excellent libraries. It consistently appears in lists of the top programming languages, so… … Read more 3 years ago in Apache Groovy, Atom, C++, Code, Delphi, Delphi4Python, Electron, Emacs, Free IDLE, IDE, java, Kotlin, Notepad, Open Source, pascal, plugin, pycharm, Pydev, PyScripter, Python Development Tool, Python Development Tools, Python Gui Development, python ide, python4delphi, RAD Studio, REPL, spyder, Sublime Text, Tech Partner, thonny, ultraedit, Vim, virtual box, Visual Studio Code, VSCode, windows 0