Story Category: Turbo Pascal
VOTEMuch 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…
2 months 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…
4 months 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…
10 months 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…
10 months ago in Borland Pascal, Delphi, Development, History, pascal, Software Development, Turbo Pascal
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