Subj : Re: Pascal projects
To   : jagossel
From : Vk3jed
Date : Sun Apr 02 2017 04:26 pm

-=> jagossel wrote to Deavmi <=-

 ja> Sounds like FreeBASIC as well: has a "QBasic" mode to compile QBasic
 ja> code.

Interesting. :)

 ja> I apologize, I am more fond of BASIC than Pascal.  I read Delphi Pascal
 ja> once, only to conclude that it was not the application that was the
 ja> problem, but the server that was the problem; so, never wrote in
 ja> Pascal.

I preferred Pascal.  At the time, BASIC was still an interpreted language. 
Compilers came along later, other than a couple of lesser known ones.  By the
time a BASIC IDE and nice, structured version came along, I was firmly in the
Pascal camp.

 ja> It is interesting to see that Pascal is still being used to this day;
 ja> even with Free Pascal and Lazuras (spell?) IDE.


Yep. :)


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