-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 TL> Now that would be an interesting exercise.  I used to be a reasonable
 TL> Pascal programmer around 25-30 years ago. :)

 ml> use it or lose it ;)

Bit late for that decision, methinks. :D

 ml> FPC is very much like TP/BP but there's other editor environments that
 ml> offer more capabilities and additional libraries... there's Lazarus if

I used to program in TP under DOS, initially TP3, then 4 and 5 in later uni
years.

 ml> one wants a Delphi similar RAD environment... i use it a lot but
 ml> (still) don't do any GUI coding... then there's MSEide with its MSEgui
 ml> which has its own set of libraries... there's also Code Typhon which is
 ml> a fork of Lazarus and supposedly does more for cross-platform stuffs
 ml> but also includes a lot more libraries and plugins that one would have
 ml> to hunt down and install... comparing lazarus and code typhon is like
 ml> comparing debian and ubuntu...

I had quit programming around the time of Windows 3.x.  While I was reasonably
good at programming, I also knew it wouldn't agree with me mentally, so I moved
on to other things.  There are times I wished I had have kept it up, especially
since the advent of open source software, but what's done is done, and I'm
probably overall better off (more time for sport - as in participating :) ).

 ml> anyway, one can do almost anything that one wants to do... even porting
 ml> code like the delphi based argus/radius/taurus FTN mailers to
 ml> FPC/Lazarus and then working on them to remove the winwhatever
 ml> centricities and make them crossplatform GUI FTN mailers...

 ml> i'm aware of at least one BBS that's written in FPC and at least two
 ml> others that are being ported over ;)

Sounds interesting.  Maybe I can beat the rust off my Pascal. ;)

 ml> )\/(ark

 ml> Always Mount a Scratch Monkey

 ml> ... Sheesh! You start havin' fun, and they send the lawyers!

Typical! :)


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