50 years of Pascal

[bleister]

Hi, all
To commemorate 50 years of Pascal here is an article that may be of interest from Niklaus Wirth

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/3/2 ... l/fulltext

And this post suggesting Niklaus should acknowledge that Delphi is the true successor to Pascal

https://blogs.embarcadero.com/50-years- ... i50YearsOP

Bruce.

[geraldholdsworth]

Interesting reads.

I can only think that Embarcadero were a little annoyed at the original article not mentioning Delphi!
(I also received the email from Embarcadero pointing me to the same article).

It's also a shame that they (Embarcadero) haven't done more with making Delphi multi-platform and have let Lazarus (a completely free version, effectively, of Delphi 7) jump into that void.

I've never played with Delphi on the BBC though...I have got the ROMs, just never fired them up.

[danielj]

Having read the Wirth article, I don't really think Delphi was relevant! He was very much talking about his evolution of his language. Embarcadero just sound a bit like they'd like some publicity out of it </cynic>.

[Coeus]

It's also a shame that they (Embarcadero) haven't done more with making Delphi multi-platform and have let Lazarus (a completely free version, effectively, of Delphi 7) jump into that void.

A pity for Embarcadero and their shareholders, maybe, but for the rest of us? Surely having a free and open source IDE for the language is a positive thing.

And Delphi for the BBC micro? Where do I find the ROMs? I know of Acornsoft ISO Pascal, S-Pascal and Oxford Pascal but not come across Delphi

[sorvad]

I've never played with Delphi on the BBC though...I have got the ROMs, just never fired them up.

Delphi Roms. Was that a typo? I used Acornsoft Pascal ones back in the day for college work. If they exist I'd presume they just implement the OO aspects, wouldn't be room for much else I would have thought.

[geraldholdsworth]

Delphi Roms. Was that a typo?

Yep, that was a typo. I did mean, as you pointed out, Acornsoft Pascal.

[flaxcottage]

Pascal is still a recognised language for A-Level Computer Science exams albeit usually in the Delphi guise. I loved teaching Turbo Pascal on DOS computers and still do have a dabble on my A4000 equipped with an Aleph 1 PC card from time to time.

A great language.

[sorvad]

A great language.

Absolutely! And Delphi's implementation of OOP with it was sweet. Better in my humble opinion than C++ implementation, which seems clunky in comparison.