Re: [fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2022-12-31 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
That's pretty damn amazing. It would be even more amazing if it could read information from the Internet and was accessible from from some API. Imagine being able to ask it to read all the source code from a git repository and convert it into HTML documentation, as you demonstrated. Or perhaps

Re: [fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2022-12-31 Thread Michalis Kamburelis via fpc-pascal
The chatbot is quite amazing :) I wrote about my nicest moments on https://castle-engine.io/wp/2022/12/17/my-mind-is-blown-i-can-use-ai-to-generate-castle-game-engine-code-to-integrate-it-with-physx-i-can-use-ai-to-generate-html-documentation-from-comments-in-pascal-code/ -- generate Pascal code

[fpc-pascal] Programming Pascal using an AI Chatbot

2022-12-31 Thread Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal
The following page hosts a series of Pascal programming questions I asked an AI chatbot system while testing its abilities. https://www.getlazarus.org/aichatbot ___ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
Wols Lists via fpc-pascal said on Sat, 31 Dec 2022 15:07:41 + >On 31/12/2022 08:37, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: >> Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500 >> >>> @youngman >>> >>> "I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL >>> and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Ralf Quint via fpc-pascal
On 12/31/2022 12:37 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500 @youngman "I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL and oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..." I'll say this: It certainly doesn't

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Tomas Hajny via fpc-pascal
Hello everybody, Could we get back on topic, please? Discussion of strengths and weaknesses of SQL and/or other database technologies and their history (especially if primarily focusing subjective feelings of different authors rather than use of these database technologies together with FPC)

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Wols Lists via fpc-pascal
On 31/12/2022 00:41, Dennis Lee Bieber via fpc-pascal wrote: Well, I understand it was originally called SEQL, E for English, but SEQUEL - Structured English QUEry Langauge. At the time SQL was being developed, every database system had its own proprietary programming

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Wols Lists via fpc-pascal
On 31/12/2022 08:37, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500 @youngman "I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL and oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..." I'll say this: It certainly doesn't

[fpc-pascal] Local Type T and generics

2022-12-31 Thread Vojtěch Čihák via fpc-pascal
Hi,   I have local type TTempItem, i.e. declared inside method of a generic class. When I write: type       TTempItem = record        Item: T;        Empty: Boolean;      end; I got: Identifier not found "T".   When I write: type      TTempItem = record        Item: TBaseGList.T;  //name of the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Open array in object constructor gives error

2022-12-31 Thread Mattias Gaertner via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 31 Dec 2022 10:35:52 +0700 Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: > Why is using the open array parameter illegal using the Object type? > > > > {$mode objfpc} > > program test; > > type > TMyObject = object > constructor Create(text: array of String); >

Re: [fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

2022-12-31 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
Anthony Walter via fpc-pascal said on Thu, 29 Dec 2022 07:31:57 -0500 >@youngman > >"I'm a database guy with maybe 30 years experience, I'm new to SQL and >oh my god is it an over-complicated monster ..." I'll say this: It certainly doesn't help that there are different variations of SQL.