Richard Ward wrote:
Would there be a benefit and/or opportunity to do a project using
Pascal directed at a college curriculum and audience such as a mini
operating system, or development environment, or database application,
or used for teaching and training purposes? Not to show that PAscal is
"just" a teaching language but that real/complex applications can be
built with it. Getting it exposed to a young audience would not hurt
and FPC (or GPC) would not be a dead end since you have a very evolved
open source framework available that can be scaled to large projects.
You might even be able to get a new OS built if you had a large body
of new programmers trained in
Huge undertaking. Vast. You'd be essentially rewriting C code for the
rest of your life. Although, come to think about it, you could try
translating RxDOS or something basic like that.
Pascal and can see the benefits of using it compared to other
alternatives. A key part of this I think would be an IDE which is much
easier to use than what is currently peddled commercially. It wouldn't
hurt if that IDE was written in Pascal. Just a thought.
Build a better mousetrap.
Regards,
M.
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