Subj : Re: Still here
To : Tony Langdon
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Apr 18 2020 11:35 am
-=> Tony Langdon wrote to Tim Grooms <=-
TG> I'm still monitoring as well. Learned to program in Waterloo Pascal on
TG> a Commodore Superpet back in the day (1983).
TL> My Pascal background is Turbo Pascal. I initially started with
TL> TP3 on CP/M, and a couple of years later, used it on DOS,
TL> eventually moving to TP4 and TP5. Would like to relearn Pascal,
TL> but this time with FreePascal.
I started with TP4 / TP5 on DOS also, but have not done anything
with it for many years. Also am looking to re-learn things, and
with FreePascal. I've now got it (FP) installed on Linux, along
wiht Lazarus, and am planning to fiddle with it as time permits.
Maybe we can all revive this echo a little with questions as we go
along... :-)
One of my issues at the moment is that a lot of what I did write
years ago (just a few small utilities for personal use) relied on
some "third party" Units. Specifically the "Turbo Technojocks
Toolkit" units. Have already tried to compile one of those units
on FP and it fails. So, my small programs can't (as currently
written) be compiled on FP. I wish somebody with the skills
would/could "port" those units over to FP. I suppose there are
probably some similar units available for FP, but haven't had time
to look into that much yet.
