Story Category: Turbo Pascal

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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 weeks 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 4 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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The Long and Winding Road To Today’s Delphi – Happy 29th Birthday !

David Intersimone David Intersimone The Long and Winding Road To Delphi’s 29th Birthday This blog post contains a quick look at 29+ years of development, innovation, community and fun with Delphi. It Started with Pascal In order to get… … Read more 1 year ago in Amiga, Anders Hejlsberg, borland, Code, CodeGear, CORBA, CP/M, database, Delphi, DOS, Embarcadero, FireMonkey, FMX, Gary Whizin, IDE, Inprise, InterBase, java, Kathleen Jensen, linux, Macintosh, Marco Cantu, Niklaus Wirth, Object Windows Library, OS/2, OWL, Philippe Kahn, php, RAD Studio, Turbo Pascal, Turbo Vision, vcl, windows, Zack Urlocker 0

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Delphi’s 29th Anniversary Webinar Replay And Slides

Ian Barker Ian Barker Well, that was a lot of fun! We just had an amazing “not your usual webinar” event where we celebrated the anniversary of 29 years since the release of Delphi. We covered all the sorts… … Read more 1 year ago in about delphi, Delphi, GDK, History, History Of Delphi, object pascal, programming, RAD Studio, Spirit of Delphi, Turbo Pascal, Webinar, webinars 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 1 year 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 1 year 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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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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The Story Of How Delphi Became A Real Game Changer For This Financial Software

Milton Coyne 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,… … Read more 3 years ago in Coding, data, Delphi, delphi compiler, jim ferguson, Learn, learn delphi, object pascal, programming, stock market, tcoffee and code, Turbo Pascal, Videos 0

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The Charlie Calvert “Here’s to Good Friends and New Adventures” article

jpluimers 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… … Read more 4 years ago in Borland C++, C++, C++ Builder, Delphi, Development, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal 0

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Much Turbo Pascal history (via What is a Delphi DCU file? – Stack Overflow)

jpluimers 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… … Read more 4 years ago in Conference Topics, Conferences, CP/M, Delphi, Development, Event, History, MS-DOS, pascal, Power User, Software Development, Turbo Pascal, UCSD Pascal, Z80 0

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50 years of Pascal and still growing!

David Intersimone 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… … Read more 4 years ago in Byte Magazine, Code, Delphi, IDE, Kathleen Jensen, Marco Cantu, Nicklaus Wirth, pascal, RAD Studio, Turbo Pascal 0

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Reverse engineering Delphi and Turbo Pascal unit interfaces (and maybe DCP files too)

jpluimers 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… … Read more 5 years ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal 0