Subj : Returning to Pascal
To : Tony Langdon
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Oct 20 2016 10:44 am
20 Oct 16 13:49, you wrote to me:
TL>> Any suggestions for resources would be welcome, though I have already
TL>> found some good information on the Free Pascal wiki, which has jogged
TL>> my memory.
ml>> what kinds of resources??
TL> Tutorials, references, etc, suitable for someone with previous (Turbo)
TL> Pascal experience. Not so keen on videos though.
yeah, screw videos... ummm... the FPC guys will say that most Delphi related
books are ok... some few things might be different but for the most part,
they're ""the same""... also, one of the guys on either the FPC or Lazarus
teams wrote a book which is available but i don't know where or for how much...
i pull the three FPC and Lazarus related mailing lists... there's also a forum
but i can't stand its interface... the mailing list works great for me and
that's where i get most of my help when i need it...
Lazarus is a RAD environment but it is also a good editor environment, too...
help is available from within the editor just like in the TP/BP days... i still
do a lot of procedural coding with some little bits of OOP stuffs... i haven't
done anything at all with Lazarus' RAD capabilities other than a few
experimental things from some document or other i found...
as an aside, i'm looking for mark may's mksrcmsg libraries converted to FPC...
i'm not looking very hard but i do have several projects that would really
benefit from being recompiled with the updated code and being 32bit or 64bit
instead of 16bit... if you don't remember mark's code, it is the OOP library
for accessing JAM, MSG, SQUish, HMB and old EZYcom message bases... i think
there's also some QWK stuff available but that's probably in the sources he
released of his Mythical Kingdom BBS package...
)\/(ark
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