Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-29 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/29/23 09:02, Steve Litt via fpc-other wrote: Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other said on Fri, 28 Apr 2023 21:39:04 +0300 Maybe #fpc-alt will become a better unofficial IRC channel? So far, I've joined the #fpc-alt channel (without leaving #fpc), to support an alternative channel as well

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/29/23 01:05, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: On 4/28/23 23:49, Tomas Hajny via fpc-other wrote: On 28 April 2023 23:31:02 +0200, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: On 4/28/23 23:20, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other wrote: On 4/28/23 23:48, Jacob Kroon wrote: After reading this email

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/28/23 23:48, Jacob Kroon wrote: After reading this email that I am replying to here, and revisiting the #fpc logs, the only conclusion I can make is that Nikolay Nikolov == "Joanna". Are you joking? Nikolay ___ fpc-other mailli

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no

2023-04-28 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/26/23 21:27, Jacob Kroon via fpc-other wrote: On 4/26/23 13:58, HSN via fpc-other wrote: Hi Nickolay Thanks for helping explain. I imagine that his new channel is now thriving with the list of excellent prospects in the ban list that I provided. It’s always good to see a new irc channel

Re: [fpc-other] I thought it was going to get better, but no.

2023-04-25 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-other
On 4/23/23 12:36, wkitty42--- via fpc-other wrote: I had thought that Joanna meant it when she said she'd step down from her operator status at #fpc to allow for somebody else to take that over, and I thought we were all going to be happy, but obviously I was wrong. i didn't see her say that

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-27 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/27/2017 07:59 AM, Paul Robinson wrote: Graeme Geldenhuys asked in Vol 108, Issue 27, "What makes a compiler project special?" Well, I'm not a member of the FPC but I've worked on several compilers and I'll throw in my 0.02 Euro into the discussion. > Since Florian mentioned that a

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-25 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/26/2017 12:16 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 22:04, Marco van de Voort wrote: There are no narrow interfaces that are natural seams for modularization inside the compiler. Yet the “packages” and “rtl” directories is just that - which by the way is part of the FPC project.

Re: [fpc-other] What makes a Compiler project (like FPC) special?

2017-05-25 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/25/2017 05:18 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: This is directed at Florian primarily, but any other FPC core member is welcome to chip in. Since Florian mentioned that a compiler project is "rocket science" [not his direct words, but he hinted at that] and totally different to any other

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/25/2017 01:44 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-24 21:21, Marco van de Voort wrote: Even a limited change is already a massive operation, let's keep it managable. So how large is the FPC team really? I'm talking about active developers on a day-to-day basis who have commit

Re: [fpc-other] Git & SVN

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 02:12 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-24 02:11, nore...@z505.com wrote: I'd rather upload/commit files to a server to insure it is backed up properly... There is absolutely no guarantee that your file are any safer. So you have your Army of Developers in a single

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 04:44 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: this is bad language design. Bonus points for the fact that writing this ugliness: if (5 == i) do_something(); is considered a very good practice by some people, just

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 05:07 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually humans.. Hahaha, you got that right! That's my secret! :) Nikolay

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 04:28 PM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: 1., no standard way to determine the length of an array compile time. sizeof() returns the length in bytes, not the number of elements. Basically you have to do sizeof(array)/sizeof(elementtype), where the elementtype has to be the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 04:56 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-22 18:53, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-22 23:39, nore...@z505.com wrote: What about Rust or plain C? Or Digital Mars D? I hate C with a passion. I'll never code in that ever again. Pascal and C are actually twin brothers

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 04:59 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-23 01:03, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: Isn't java just a wrapper around C? No. Java compilers generate code for a virtual machine, called JVM (Java Virtual Machine). They do not generate code for x86 CPUs or any other ...snip

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] FPC Graphics options?

2017-05-22 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/23/2017 01:35 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-18 10:12, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-18 16:04, Ryan Joseph wrote: After I looked at the code I didn't see anything strange about it Thank you, that's what I thought too. it just got me thinking, if that code can be that

Re: [fpc-other] $100, 000 for C++ implementation of FPC's -CR option

2015-08-14 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 08/14/2015 11:02 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Fri, 14 Aug 2015, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: On 08/13/2015 11:47 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/08/13/1229239 In all fairness, they also optimise it so that they emit fewer checks (if you check whether X

Re: [fpc-other] $100, 000 for C++ implementation of FPC's -CR option

2015-08-13 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 08/13/2015 11:47 PM, Jonas Maebe wrote: http://it.slashdot.org/story/15/08/13/1229239 In all fairness, they also optimise it so that they emit fewer checks (if you check whether X of the correct type in one statement, you may not have to check it again in the next etc) and hence reduce the

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 16.3.2015 г. 14:24, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: I can also add that SubVersion has *no* concept of Tags. To SubVersion there is no difference between a Tag and a Branch. Why do I say that? Simply because you can create a Tag in the repository, and then start adding commits to it just mind

Re: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Google Code closing down

2015-03-16 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 03/16/2015 11:34 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: But again, use whatever fits you best. I did deep evaluations of many systems, then made my choice. So far, I'm very happy with my choice and outcome. Yes, we *know*. You have made us well aware of this fact. :) Nikolay

Re: [fpc-other] PROLOG written in Pascal

2014-09-20 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 09/21/2014 12:31 AM, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: Is anybody interested in a PROLOG interpreter written in Turbo Pascal, plus a couple of typeset articles which outline how it works internally? When I found it I was wondering whether it could be

[fpc-other] Project written in FPC has been selected for Google Summer of Code 2011

2011-03-23 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
Hi all, Just saw that the game Hedgewars, which is written in FPC (some parts of the game are written in other languages, but the main engine is in FPC), has been approved for this year's Google Summer of Code: http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/program/accepted_orgs/google/gsoc2011 This

Re: [fpc-other] Google release a new programming language: Go

2009-11-11 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 11/11/2009 09:05 PM, Doug Chamberlin wrote: Unlike Nikolay's initial impression, I see Go as a seriously impressive language. Most notable is its handling of parallel processing. It is the first new language model I've seen that makes using multiple CPUs as easy as my mind wants it to be.