Subj : Pascal rolecall!
To : James Coyle
From : mark lewis
Date : Mon Apr 08 2013 04:19 pm
VC> Used to, last was re-issuing FileMgr now left on sourceforge as
VC> Open Source. Written in TP. Did consider migrating it over to Free
VC> Pascal but decided it was to complex for my old brain !!
JC> Free Pascal isn't so bad coming from TP. They have a lot of nearly
JC> compatible Units that work like TP counterparts (DOS, CRT, etc).
JC> Those units can really help soften the transition.
yup!
JC> I think you can find a lot of similar string functions in SysUtils
JC> (to help replace all of those TP assembler string functions that
JC> just about everyone was using back in the day!)
you can say that again... it seems like they took all of those additional
library routines that we all used to reinvent and such and placed them into the
library that comes with FPC so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel
again...
the bigest problem i'm having is uninventing that wheel... finding the routines
that are duplicated and using the new one that comes with FPC... the trouble is
that the names are not always close or similar... i've even come acrossed a few
that have the same name but the variables are passed differently and/or the new
routine doesn't do what the old one did... there's a lot of code diving that
has to be done to make sure everything gets converted correctly ;)
i've slowly been working on converting mark may's mksmg library to FPC...
