• This Echo?

    From Jasen Betts@3:640/531.42 to Simon Woodland on Thursday, August 01, 2002 18:54:00
    Hi Simon.

    31-Jul-02 18:52:36, Simon Woodland wrote to Exodus


    Hello Exodus!

    On 31/07/2002, Exodus wrote to All:
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal questions...
    it's been pretty quiet recently.





    Bye <=-

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  • From Simon Woodland@2:250/501.5 to Jasen Betts on Sunday, August 11, 2002 18:10:33
    Hello Jasen!

    On 01/08/2002, Jasen Betts wrote to Simon Woodland:
    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions...
    it's been pretty quiet recently.


    I have also noticed the delphi echo's are equally as quiet.



    Regards,
    Simon Woodland

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Jasen Betts on Monday, August 12, 2002 15:17:08
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions... it's been pretty quiet recently.

    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    )\/(ark


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  • From Simon Woodland@2:250/501.5 to mark lewis on Monday, August 12, 2002 20:40:02
    Hello mark!

    On 12/08/2002, mark lewis wrote to Jasen Betts:
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions... it's been pretty quiet recently.

    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    They dont seem to have moved over to the delphi echo's either :-(

    Regards,
    Simon Woodland

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  • From Exodus@1:218/903 to All on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 13:39:16
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

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  • From Simon Woodland@1:218/903 to Exodus on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 20:52:36
    Hello Exodus!

    On 31/07/2002, Exodus wrote to All:
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)


    Regards,
    Simon Woodland

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  • From mark lewis@1:218/903 to Exodus on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 16:38:12
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    sure... when questions are asked, they are generally answered... if the question is about pascal programming, it is answered in a general manner that someone learning the language can understand... the level of discussion is no where near as "deep" as what one may find in the PASCAL echo...

    PS: if you are the sysop of 1:129/305 (T.J. McMillen Jr.),
    please configure your software to use real names in this echo... if not, please

    ask your sysop to do this... if it cannot be done, then please sign your messages with your real name...

    thanks!

    )\/(ark
    a moderator, PASCAL_LESSONS


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  • From T.J. Mcmillen@1:218/903 to Mark Lewis on Wednesday, July 31, 2002 21:02:09
    PS: if you are the sysop of 1:129/305 (T.J. McMillen Jr.),
    please configure your software to use real names in this echo... if not, please ask your sysop to do this... if it cannot be done, then please sign your messages with your real name...

    Better? <G>

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  • From Stephen Gibbs@1:218/903 to Exodus on Thursday, August 01, 2002 12:14:42
    Not much ... usually just the rules postings. :)

    Cheers ...

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  • From mark lewis@1:218/903 to T.J. Mcmillen on Friday, August 02, 2002 01:42:26
    PS: if you are the sysop of 1:129/305 (T.J. McMillen Jr.),
    please configure your software to use real names in this
    echo... if not, please ask your sysop to do this... if it
    cannot be done, then please sign your messages with your
    real name...

    Better? <G>

    yes, thanks!

    )\/(ark


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  • From Scott Adams@1:218/903 to Exodus on Thursday, August 01, 2002 04:50:27
    Quoting Exodus to All <=-

    @MSGID: 1:129/305 a9475898
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    Sure.


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  • From Jasen Betts@1:218/903 to Simon Woodland on Thursday, August 01, 2002 19:54:00
    Hi Simon.

    31-Jul-02 18:52:36, Simon Woodland wrote to Exodus


    Hello Exodus!

    On 31/07/2002, Exodus wrote to All:
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal questions...
    it's been pretty quiet recently.





    Bye <=-

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  • From Simon Woodland@1:218/903 to Jasen Betts on Sunday, August 11, 2002 19:10:33
    Hello Jasen!

    On 01/08/2002, Jasen Betts wrote to Simon Woodland:
    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions...
    it's been pretty quiet recently.


    I have also noticed the delphi echo's are equally as quiet.



    Regards,
    Simon Woodland

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  • From mark lewis@1:218/903 to Jasen Betts on Monday, August 12, 2002 16:17:08
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions... it's been pretty quiet recently.

    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    )\/(ark


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  • From Simon Woodland@1:218/903 to mark lewis on Monday, August 12, 2002 21:40:02
    Hello mark!

    On 12/08/2002, mark lewis wrote to Jasen Betts:
    Anything ever happen in this echo?

    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions... it's been pretty quiet recently.

    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    They dont seem to have moved over to the delphi echo's either :-(

    Regards,
    Simon Woodland

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  • From Chris Hoppman@1:129/305 to Mark Lewis on Friday, August 16, 2002 06:34:29
    Do you deal with oop? I found some source
    code that I don't really understand
    and could use some help in figuring it out.


    I could post some of the code. Or maybe
    if you want to look at it and do a brief
    explaination. I got it from

    http://home10.inet.tele.dk/sag/asl.html

    It is the aslNNTPClient.pas under the
    OOExample part of it.

    I never really got into the Decentant
    slash parent type of bp programming ie. oop


    Well, you said you wantted to help a newbie
    type programmer. Thought I would give
    you the chance.

    big Grin

    One,
    Chris Hoppman

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  • From Scott Adams@1:112/91 to mark lewis on Tuesday, August 13, 2002 04:29:30
    Quoting mark lewis to Jasen Betts <=-


    I was wondering that myself ;-)

    Regards, Simon Woodland

    Once upon a time this was the place to ask newbie pascal
    questions... it's been pretty quiet recently.

    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    Yeah I remember the day when we had tons of
    newbies in the echo.

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  • From Andy Ball@1:10/345 to Scott Adams on Wednesday, August 21, 2002 14:59:14
    Hello,

    ml> yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    SA> Yeah I remember the day when we had tons of newbies in the echo.

    I might qualify. I did a little Pascal at college, skipped Modula-2 but look at Oberon every now and again. From what I've seen, I like Wirth's work: Pascal seems quite readable and I like 'common-sense' touches like defining procedures before they're called by the main program, enabling a single-pass compiler. I would like to use Pascal to write some open-source software, but I've found that trying to make open-source Pascal compilers work tends to be like banging my head against a wall: painful and unproductive.

    - Andy.

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  • From james coyle@1:268/212 to Andy Ball on Thursday, August 22, 2002 20:10:00
    I've found that trying to make open-source Pascal compilers work tends to like banging my head against a wall: painful and unproductive.

    Free Pascal and Virtual Pascal are excellent free compilers. Virtual Pascal isn't open sourced, but Free Pascal is.

    I've done some serious development with both (FP for Linux and VP for
    Windows). I have written several large projects, many approaching 100,000 lines of code. I can seriously recommend both for those platforms, although
    I haven't used Free Pascal much on anything other than Linux.

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  • From Andy Ball@1:10/345 to James Coyle on Thursday, August 22, 2002 23:19:20
    Hello,

    JC> I've done some serious development with both (FP for Linux and
    > VP for Windows). I have written several large projects, many
    > approaching 100,000 lines of code. I can seriously recommend
    > both for those platforms, although I haven't used Free Pascal
    > much on anything other than Linux.

    I think Free Pascal may have been one of the compilers that was giving me grief. It may be time I tried again though.

    - Andy.

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  • From Chris Hoppman@1:129/305 to James Coyle on Friday, August 23, 2002 17:40:52
    Free Pascal and Virtual Pascal are excellent free compilers. Virtual Pasca isn't open sourced, but Free Pascal is.

    Virtual Pascal has alot of it's units open for editting. I just has a few
    that are closed, because of the original is a copyright belongs still
    to Borland International.

    Quote from the site.

    "The following standard units are shipped with VP: VpSysLow, System, SysUtils, Use32, Use16, Dos, Crt, Strings, Printers, Objects, Validate, WinDos, WinCrt, TypInfo, Math and Classes. For the SysUtils, Classes, Math and TypInfo units, only the interface sections are included (because the original copyright belongs to Borland International); the other units are all supplied with full source code."


    (VP for Windows).

    Plus, you said you use it on Windows. I also do, but I found it is mainly gear'd towards os/2. They only list ONE example for a IBM based machine.


    Just thought to fill in a couple of gaps.

    Chris H.

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  • From Jasen Betts@3:640/531.42 to Andy Ball on Friday, August 23, 2002 22:40:58
    Hi Andy.

    22-Aug-02 22:19:20, Andy Ball wrote to James Coyle


    Hello,

    I've done some serious development with both (FP for Linux and
    >> VP for Windows). I have written several large projects, many
    >> approaching 100,000 lines of code. I can seriously recommend
    >> both for those platforms, although I haven't used Free Pascal
    >> much on anything other than Linux.

    I think Free Pascal may have been one of the compilers that was
    giving me grief. It may be time I tried again though

    AFAIK FPC is a "Borland" pascal not an ISO or Wirth pascal,
    so there may be are subtle differences to what you expect. (you didn't
    specify the flavour of toyue college pascal exposusre)

    The GNU p2c compiler is an ISO pascal dunno if it's still being developed, it's written in C and needs a C compiler to produce executables.

    Bye <=-

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  • From Andy Ball@1:10/345 to Jasen Betts on Saturday, August 24, 2002 21:20:30
    Hi Jasen,

    JB> AFAIK FPC is a "Borland" pascal not an ISO or Wirth
    > pascal, so there may be are subtle differences to what
    > you expect.

    Wirth invented the language, so to a certain extent all Pascals ought to be at least partially "Wirth pascal". ;-)

    JB> (you didn't specify the flavour of toyue college
    > pascal exposusre)

    I believe I used Borland Pascal at college, but from the other Pascal books I've looked at it seems more consistant than (for example) BASIC. I wasn't using Borland libraries and have no emotional investment in Borland - I just want something that works for me.

    JB> The GNU p2c compiler is an ISO pascal dunno if it's
    > still being developed, it's written in C and needs a
    > C compiler to produce executables.

    I did try p2c (the machines I use mostly have gcc on them), and if I remember rightly it took my Pascal source and produced credible looking C. I forget why
    the C it produced would not build.

    Now is probably a good time for me to try some Pascal compilers again, making note of the results (or lack thereof) that they produce.

    Regards,
    - Andy.

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  • From Scott Adams@1:112/91 to Andy Ball on Friday, August 30, 2002 20:40:07
    Quoting Andy Ball to Scott Adams <=-



    yeah, not many worthwhile newbie pascal programmers any more ;-(

    Yeah I remember the day when we had tons of newbies in the echo.

    I might qualify. I did a little Pascal at college, skipped Modula-2
    but look at Oberon every now and again. From what I've seen, I like Wirth's work: Pascal seems quite readable and I like 'common-sense' touches like defining procedures before they're called by the main program, enabling a single-pass compiler. I would like to use Pascal
    to write some open-source software, but I've found that trying to make open-source Pascal compilers work tends to be like banging my head
    against a wall: painful and unproductive.

    Yeah. I've done pascal since the early '80s though technically
    my first language was basic as it was for everyone then. Since
    then I've tried to learn more and up to about 26 langauges
    through college and work. But I still come back to pascal
    for home coding since its the easiest and less stressful than
    say C which I may do at work all day. As to open sourcing
    yes, its alot of material to deal with and can get bogged
    down in things.





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