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.



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