Story Category: Turbo Pascal
VOTEHappy birthday Turbo Pascal! Some marketing and Borland Conference videos
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… – Details…
2 weeks ago in .NET, C++, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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I first met Philippe Kahn and Turbo Pascal 40 years ago this month
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… – Details…
4 weeks 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
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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
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)… – Details…
1 year ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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On Windows, keep the lifetime of relative pathnames as short as possible because of thread-safety issues
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]… – Details…
2 years ago in Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, Windows Development
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The Story Of How Delphi Became A Real Game Changer For This Financial Software
Milton Coyne
In this new TCoffee and Code session, we a fact-packed conversation on how stock market trading drastically evolved over the years and how Delphi became a game-changer for real-time financial software development. In this video,… – Details…
2 years ago in Coding, data, Delphi, delphi compiler, jim ferguson, Learn, learn delphi, object pascal, programming, stock market, tcoffee and code, Turbo Pascal, Videos
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The Charlie Calvert “Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures” article
jpluimers
Since this contains a list of contains from back then (20+ years ago!), I save it for future reference: [WayBack] Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures I would like to make a very short… – Details…
2 years ago in Borland C++, C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)
jpluimers
Editing [WayBack] What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow for more historic correctness and adding links prompted me to archive some older material and search for some more, basically because while historically very… – Details…
3 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80
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50 years of Pascal and still growing!
David Intersimone
In the March 2021 edition of the Communications of the ACM there is an article, by Nicklaus Wirth, about the 50th anniversary of Nicklaus Wirth’s Pascal. What started at ETH Zurich (in 1970) was publicized… – Details…
3 years ago in Byte Magazine, Code, Delphi, IDE, Kathleen Jensen, Marco Cantu, Nicklaus Wirth, pascal, RAD Studio, Turbo Pascal
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Delphi and conditional compilation
jpluimers
There are various ways for Delphi code to verify what features are available. Historically, testing for the existence of VER### defines with $IFDEF or $IFNDEF is the oldest means, and as of Delphi 6, you… – Details…
3 years ago in Delphi, Development, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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Reverse engineering Delphi and Turbo Pascal unit interfaces (and maybe DCP files too)
jpluimers
Boy, I wish there was both an Embarcadero sanctioned grammar (see Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow) and a DCU parser. This might work for DCP files as well, since the PKX0… – Details…
3 years ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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