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2009-10-17 Thread ak za
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2009-10-17 Thread Micha Nelissen
ak za wrote: i want to don't send mail to me from you but idn't know how do it. please guide me Do you mean unsubscribe, see link at bottom of this email: http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal Then look at bottom of page, unsubscribe. Micha

Re: [fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

2009-10-17 Thread Vinzent Höfler
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Any programmer worth hiring should find it relatively easy to switch to another language. Or and least become proficient in it in a relative short period of time. The basic principles apply to all languages, it's just the tool-chain and syntax that

Re: [fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

2009-10-17 Thread Henry Vermaak
2009/10/17 Vinzent Höfler jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net: Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: Any programmer worth hiring should find it relatively easy to switch to another language. Or and least become proficient in it in a relative short period of time.  The basic principles apply to

[fpc-pascal] Division by Zero: EDivByZero and EZeroDivide

2009-10-17 Thread Bart
Hi, Is there a reason why in fpc both floating point and integer division by zero raise an EDivByZero exception? See: http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/SysUtils.EZeroDivide SysUtils.EZeroDivide exception is raised when an application attempts to divide a floating-point value by zero. Note:

Re: [fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

2009-10-17 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 17/10/2009, Vinzent Hoefler jellyfish.softw...@gmx.net wrote: Absolutely. But there's also the catch: With people only knowing C where should this knowledge come from? Documentation. I have been programming solely in Object Pascal for the last 9 years. I dab in Java every now and again

Re: [fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

2009-10-17 Thread Jürgen Hestermann
A quick study of some language reference docs and a few examples should be all you need to get started. The general rules are easy to learn. But to be productive you also need to know about environments (IDE etc.), available libraries and their usage (which already differ between Delphi and

Re: [fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

2009-10-17 Thread Vinzent Höfler
Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com: I have been programming solely in Object Pascal for the last 9 years. I dab in Java every now and again (but not for any production software). I also read a lot of C/C++ code which I rewrite into Object Pascal for whatever reason. So just like me