On 03/03/2014 07:24 AM, JIMB wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is the appropriate place to send this enquiry, maybe some
one will guide me!
I used Borland T Pascal for many years and later on Delphi. Although I have
good training in Object oriented design and implementation, I have NOT had
many occasions where it was actually needed. Much of my stuff is just number
crunching and some graphic output, (7 colour is fine).
I am struggling to make Lazarus do the stuff I want; a great deal of the
Lazarus power just confuses a simple process. Basically I need a replacement
for Borland Pascal 7. I do, however, like the Lazarus IDE.
Any ideas what I which way I should go, and where will I see any replies to
this email, if there are any?
Best wishes,
Jim
Jim Barr
Best is the enemy of good enough
Barrs law of recurcive futility:-
If you're smart enough to use one of these.....
.....you can probably manage without one
Hi Jim,
Since you wrote: "Basically I need a replacement for Borland Pascal 7" I
would like to share a little of what I wrote on a Free Pascal mailing
list last week (hope it helps).
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FPC DOS is pretty easy for a console program, but it is 32-bit (whereas
DOS is 16-bit) so it isn't as simple as Turbo Pascal. There is a 5 MB
zip here that should make it easy to get started with FPC for DOS:
http://www.turbocontrol.com/helloworld.htm
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I think my most enjoyable work ever was during the past 3.5 years, using
Turbo Pascal on expensive real-time embedded equipment. I was able to
have (a single set of) source code that was used for about 15 versions
of about 6 different products. One batch file called about 15 batch
files (one for each product/version) that compiled the source and
compared the resulting executables against what had been shipped. I've
done similar things before (but never had so much technical fun):
http://brenemanlabs.com/SrcCtrl.htm
Every since C# got popular I enjoy meeting programmers who don't know
much about Delphi. Look at the 6th message in this thread if you want
to see my normal response:
http://www.control.com/thread/1294638212
The bottom of this page has a little of my APro history:
http://turbocontrol.com/APro.htm
Last month Embarcadero mentioned AsyncPro on their "devices and gadgets"
XE5 seminar. I'm hoping to upgrade some of my APro examples soon.
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I recently turned up some interesting stuff about Turbo Pascal, so
wanted to add it here in case it might be of help.
Here I can purchase source code (for $200) to make my own Turbo Pascal
compiler for DOS (I don't plan to purchase):
http://turbo51.com/compiler-design/tpc16-turbo-pascal-compiler-written-in-turbo-pascal
The same guy has put a bit of effort into these pages:
http://turbopascal.org/
http://turbopascal.org/turbo-pascal-download - see 3 PDFs at the bottom
http://turbopascal.org/sitemap - could look up TP bugs here?
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Best regards,
Paul Breneman
www.TurboControl.com
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