Jason McBride wrote:
Sorry to drag this topic on...
Borland made a cheap Pascal compiler in the 80's. Later they added OOP
support to it which then turned into Delphi, using Apple's spec for
OOP Pascal as a base.
The first version of PhotoShop was written in this Object Pascal
before Object Pascal later became Delphi.
Of course, if you like MacPascal, you can use Xcode and FreePascal or
GNU Pascal, with most of the CodeWarrior extensions and all of the Apple
Interfaces. I wish Apple had not dropped the spec for Object Pascal. The
Borland extensions to the language are wonderful. I think FreePascal +
Lazarus will come very close to cloning Borland's VCL framework at some
point, even on the Mac.
"Delphi" now refers to the "Studio" product, which allows for a mix of
any .Net language with Delphi or C++ with OP for a Win32 target. I've
seen some projects with a mix and match that can be really wild --
questioning the sanity of the programmers involved.
I think this is something that would be nice in RB -- if you could
include C++ in the project. As it is, you would create a plug-in for RB
in C++ and add that to the project. Not much more work, I suppose...
Could the RB compiler support C/C++ in-line? It can be useful, for speed
reasons.
- Scott
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