Comments on: Turbo Pascal 1.0 is 25 years old

By: avinash

avinash — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 03:55:13 +0000

Thanks for your comment Igor. And congratulations for your work on Turbo51!

By: Igor

Igor — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 20:52:05 +0000

Turbo Pascal changed my life. I still remember those days in early 80s, Turbo Pascal on CP/M machines. I like Pascal because it is easy to write and easy to read. I also wrote Pascal compiler for 8051 microcontrollers (available for free at http://turbo51.com/ ). Thanks to Borland and Anders Hejlsberg for this fantastic piece of software.

By: avinash

avinash — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:37:34 +0000

Interesting toy example of the OO capabilities of Pascal. Incidentally, the book Applying UML and Patterns is an excellent book to learn Object-Oriented Analysis and Design.

By: Alan Clark

Alan Clark — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:55:32 +0000

unit PascalOOExample;

interface

type
THelloWorldPrinter = class
private
const Text: string = ‘Hello World’;
public
procedure Execute; virtual;
end;

TGoodbyeWorldPrinter = class(THelloWorldPrinter)
public
procedure Execute; override;
end;

implementation

procedure THelloWorldPrinter.Execute;
begin
Writeln(Text);
end;

procedure TGoodbyeWorldPrinter.Execute;
begin
inherited;
writeln(‘Goodbye world’);
end;

end.

By: El lenguaje de programación Turbo Pascal cumple 25 años - FayerWayer

El lenguaje de programación Turbo Pascal cumple 25 años - FayerWayer — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:08:39 +0000

[...] November 2008 marks the 25th anniversary of Turbo Pascal v1.0! (vía Avinash Meetoo: Blog) [...]

By: avinash

avinash — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 03:56:57 +0000

Hi Ashesh, Have a look at this document describing Object-Oriented Pascal. Incidentally, Turbo Pascal 5.5, which is downloadable freely, is also object-oriented.

By: Webdesign Bureau

Webdesign Bureau — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:40:35 +0000

Strange enough, I didn’t get acquainted to programming when languages such as this one were the hit. I remember taking math lessons at the beginning of the 90s in a class where the teacher also gave programming lessons to Uni students in Mauritius and I was just like: “Wow, these guys must be freaking intelligent!”.

The only problem for me was that, like in many Mauritian families, the parents decided of your future and mine did not want me to get into computer science because “professer anglais tape bel casse”. Some 10 years later I was studying Java2 and C in a French University.

By: Ashesh

Ashesh — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:29:17 +0000

Cool, 25 years – pascal.

After Dbase III plus, I got the opportunity to have a greater interest in Programming by having fun with Pascal.

I really enjoyed this programming language. Very Structured, Disciplined way of doing things.

However, the mystery:
Is Object Oriented Supported in Pascal?
If so, could we have a code snippet that demonstrates the basic OOP concepts please?

Thank you

By: avinash

avinash — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:06:08 +0000

Hi Manzerkrane,

Thanks for the nice words. It’s great to know that people like the way I blog. As a matter of fact, It’s sometimes tough to be a blogger but oh so satisfying… thanks to people like you

By: manzerkrane

manzerkrane — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:51:00 +0000

Dear Avinash,
Thx for being yourself, it is the first time I have felt the impulse of interacting with a Mauritian blogger. No prejudice, but just away from the puddle of ‘Beaches, picnic, landscapes ..or plain non salivating blurbs. Reckon with 350,000 users of DSL, there should be more like you on this scape. But thx for populating the network.
Good work !