23 Mar 16 21:46, you wrote to me:

 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 ;)

 TL> Bit late for that decision, methinks. :D

hahaha... i know that feeling...

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

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

i forget which TP i started with but i remember TP3 and then i jumped to TP6
and got BP7 at some point...

 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
 ml>> MSEgui which has its own set of libraries... there's also Code Typhon
 ml>> which is a fork of Lazarus and supposedly does more for
 ml>> cross-platform stuffs but also includes a lot more libraries and
 ml>> plugins that one would have to hunt down and install... comparing
 ml>> lazarus and code typhon is like comparing debian and ubuntu...

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

i hear ya... i got into programming for various reasons... one was having to
code for my own hardware developments... then the hardware became more like a
toaster and i was not able to continue designing hardware as i had been
doing... programming, though, gave me a lot more control than i had been
having... if the machine didn't do what i wanted, i turned it off or rewrote
the code to make it do what i wanted... one way or another, i was in control...
then i found girls and the world exploded again...

 ml>> anyway, one can do almost anything that one wants to do... even
 ml>> porting 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 ;)

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

funny! i've never heard it called that before 

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

 TL> Typical! :)

and getting worse in this day in time :(

 TL> ... Since bread is square, then why is sandwich meat round?

how about square meat on round bread? ;)

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