Re: Roguelikes not for newbies?
- From: Radomir 'The Sheep' Dopieralski <thesheep@ sheep.prv.pl>
- Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 12:05:31 +0000 (UTC)
At Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:24:37 +0100,
Kornel Kisielewicz wrote:
AngeloB napisa?(a):
Hello!
I decided to learn Pascal, and that's what I'm doing right now.
:-)
What I want to know is if Delphi turned out to be a different language,
or is it still Pascal. Can we use it to code in Pascal? How does
FreePascal and Delphi combine?
Basically ISO Pascal (which was invented by Knuth and not Borland)
turned out to be too simple to make serious apps in it. To make Pascal
good a few enhancements had to be added. So Borland created their own
dialect of the language and named it Delphi. Now (to prevent mixing up
the language and the compiler) it is commonly refered to as Object
Pascal. Freepascal supports Object Pascal, and quite a lot other dialects.
No, no, you have got it all wrong :)
Borland "extended" ISO Pascal, creating a series of languages called
'Borland Pascal' and their smaller versions 'Turbo Pascal'. I use the
word 'series', because each version was in fact a different language,
with slightly different syntax. Later, Borland extended Borland Pascal
to allow some crippled object support and produced a graphical IDE,
calling this product Delphi. Again, there's no such thing as single
'Delphi' language, as each version uses different syntax and has
slightly semantics.
Then comes the Free Pascal, which is an attempt to provide a free
alternative to Borland (Turbo) Pascal. The project goes well, and
soon most of the Borland's "extensions" are supported, and even
some more. There are still some differences in the standard
libraries, though, and Free Pascal has much more standard
libraries than Borland Pascal ever had.
--
Radomir `The Sheep' Dopieralski
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