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Dimly Lit Corners<a href="https://polymaths.social/@rl_dane" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@rl_dane</a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/@dmoonfire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dmoonfire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fribbledom</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> never left the sunlight, the western world, and mostly the USA, moved on? :D Pascal stayed popular in east Europe and (former) USSR, after 1990s mostly used inside lots of organisations in Europe to create internal (database access) tools and services both as (Object)Pascal and Delphi

Knut 🏳️‍🌈 🇳🇴🧸More <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ai" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ai</a> vibe <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#code</a> garbage. Seriously...RedBull and Drum and Bass. I'm sure it works well with like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#python</a> but systems languages, like <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a> which I'm a master at or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/c" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c</a> or <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/assmbler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#assmbler</a> and I'm sure <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lisp</a> is like this where you have to keep an internal data structure map in your head or it just won't work. You have to have continuity between things. And those things are very abstract. They can't build an OS or a compiler <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-using-vibe-coding-to-create-my-own-productivity-app/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.howtogeek.com/i-tried-using-vibe-coding-to-create-my-own-productivity-app/</a>

Mark BesseyI wrote a new blog post: A blast from the past: The UCSD p-System, Apple Pascal, and a dream of cross-platform compatibility never quite realized. <a href="https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://markbessey.blog/2025/04/14/a-blast-from-the-past/</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a>

Mark BesseyI had a thought that it might be fun to play around with some UCSD Pascal and p-System programming. I have fond memories of working in Apple Pascal in High School and doing some work in HP Pascal (on the 9000/300 series) at my first job.There is *a lot* of p-system information on the Web, but it's generally very poorly organized. But I did manage to get an Apple 2 emulator up and running on my Mac, and I found disk images for Apple Pascal 1.3, so I'm now able to actually do some work in that environment.It is amazing what we put up with in terms of user interfaces back in the day, isn't it? It's certainly a lot nicer running on an emulator that can execute 6502 code hundreds of times faster than an Apple II ever could, though. I think my intermediate-stage goal here is to write a p-system emulator of my own that runs natively on the Mac. Probably it'll be in Rust, because fighting with Rust is now part of my day job, and I have to get better at it.<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/psystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psystem</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/macos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#macos</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rust</a>

Hacker NewsWhy Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981) [pdf]<a href="https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/why_pascal/why_pascal_is_not_my_favorite_language.pdf</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HackerNews</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Language</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hacker</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#News</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tech</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Critique" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Critique</a>

The Last Psion | AlexHIVEMIND: Does anyone have a copy of the TopSpeed Pascal 3.10 compiler?I've discovered something. I can't unsee it. So now I have to follow it through.<blockquote>The [TopSpeed] Pascal compiler could also be used to develop software for the Psion series 3 in a roundabout way if used with the PSION s3 SDK, as the environment allowed you to develop Pascal code with C code, headers and libraries you could get functional s3 apps by linking the Pascal code with the required C headers/libs and then compiling everything with the PSION SDK, in rare cases needing a little bit of glue C code.</blockquote>Source: <a href="http://www.edm2.com/index.php/TopSpeed_Pascal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.edm2.com/index.php/TopSpeed_Pascal</a>Does anyone have a copy of TopSpeed Pascal? I need to try writing Pascal software for <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/EPOC16" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#EPOC16</a>. The documentation would be really handy, too.<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/compilers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compilers</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrodev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#retrodev</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#compiler</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#askfedi</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/psion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psion</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a>

Bread80I'm making a start on user types in the compiler. Basic type synonyms and typed pointers can now be declared. I want to work on the declarations code and data structures first, so I can't yet instantiate these types but can use them in other type declarations.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Quiche" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Quiche</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Compiler" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Compiler</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Z80" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Z80</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Delphi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Delphi</a>

Witty Dragon<a href="https://mastodon.world/@weirdjokes" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@weirdjokes</a> And here was I thinking that I wanted to learn <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Python</a> just for fun (not because of work-related stuff). For example, I have over 300 books and I wanted to learn a programming language just to practise and reviving my programming skills. I could create a management system.In my teenage years, I studied in a technical school and learnt a bit of programming in some of the course modules: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Basic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Basic</a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a>.Is that the won't language to learn?

BørgeI'd much rather take Pascal's carriage than Pascal's wager any time!TIL that Pascal started the worlds first bus company (as far as this youtuber found that history has recorded, which might have many biases)<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNEVRosKzM" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsNEVRosKzM</a><a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/bus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bus</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/PublicTransit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicTransit</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/PublicTransport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PublicTransport</a> <a href="https://tutoteket.no/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a>

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵<a href="https://polymaths.social/@dmoonfire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@dmoonfire</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@fribbledom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fribbledom</a>Hey now, <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> will have its day in the sun again!

ThiloDrawing Heighway’s Dragon - Recursive Function Rewrite - From Imperative Style in <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> (on the <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/c64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#c64</a> !) To Functional Style in <a href="https://mastodontech.de/tags/Scala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Scala</a> 3Nice slidedeck with very detailed explanations about revisiting code forty years later<a href="https://fpilluminated.org/deck/256" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://fpilluminated.org/deck/256</a>

Marco Breveglieri - DeveloperIeri sera ci siamo divertiti a sperimentare in live con "PAS2JS", un tool open-source col quale è possibile "transpilare" codice <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> in <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JavaScript</a>, in modo del tutto simile a quanto avviene con TypeScript: usare un linguaggio fortemente tipizzato in un ambiente "dinamico". 🔬Siamo partiti dal classico "Hello World" fino al testare uno dei demo, il gioco Pac-man, un classico di tutti i tempi. 🕹️Per chi vuol guardarsi il replay della live, è disponibile su YouTube! 👉 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0i_AGH5KQ" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq0i_AGH5KQ</a>

rk: could be an enumI know they’re now owned by Amazon, sadly, but Abe Books is still really useful for finding old technical books using their “want” mechanism. Yours truly has a copy of “A Model Implementation of Standard Pascal” by Welsh and Hay on the way. (IIRC the model implementation supports conformant arrays but I don’t know if type schemas are in there. Probably not. Maybe? It would be awesome if it did.)<a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.well.com/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a>

Marco Breveglieri - Developer<a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> + <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/JavaScript" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JavaScript</a>? Sì... può... fareee! 😱🧟TypeScript non è l’unico linguaggio che può "diventare" JavaScript. Grazie a <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/PAS2JS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PAS2JS</a>, anche il Pascal moderno può essere transpilato in JavaScript sia per il browser sia per Node.JS! 😲Pare ci si possa fare letteralmente di tutto: dal programmino fino al porting completo di un gioco arcade. 🕹️Mettiamolo alla prova martedì 4 marzo su <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Twitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Twitch</a>, partendo dal sempreverde "Hello World" e provando poi con script più avanzati!👉 <a href="https://twitch.tv/compilaquindiva" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://twitch.tv/compilaquindiva</a>

Senioradmin<a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Delphi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Delphi</a> / Object <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> in den Top Ten im Tiobe Index. Dass das nochmal passiert ... <a href="https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/</a>

((Jann Gobble)) 🏳️‍🌈We wouldn't have this problem with DOGE's interns if they had to learn COBOL, FORTRAN, and PASCAL - like I had to.BTW: My major programming language? PerlSecond only to Objective-C... NOT SWIFT. Obj-C!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Perl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Perl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DOGE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DOGE</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FORTRAN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FORTRAN</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PASCAL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PASCAL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#COBOL</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OBJC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OBJC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ObjectiveC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ObjectiveC</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Swift" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Swift</a>

Víctor R. Ruiz<a href="https://indieweb.social/@jbz" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jbz</a> Thanks for sharing that! I was already in love with Turbo Pascal, but my first paid job was one to re-program a DOS billing application in Delphi (3). What a wonderful programming environment! My love for <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> never died but, for many reasons, it never got traction among open source communities. By the way, a few months before I started, I traveled to Madrid to do a training course and, while there, I bought Infomagic’s 1996 CD pack with Slackware, Red Hat and Debian.

jbz🗓️ Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Delphi version 1.0’s Launch｢ Today we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the launch of Delphi version 1.0 on Valentine’s Day, February 14, 1995, at the Software Development West Conference in San Francisco California. More that 12 years of continuous IDE, language, tools and library development led up to the launch of Delphi version 1.0 ｣<a href="https://blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://blog.davidi.com/2025/02/14/celebrating-the-30th-anniversary-of-delphi-version-1-0s-launch/</a><a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/delphi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#delphi</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pascal</a> <a href="https://indieweb.social/tags/plt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#plt</a>

LisPi<a href="https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_Specific_Languages" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Bootstrapping_Specific_Languages</a> Well this is a neat website. Interesting details about Aesop & Pascal that I hadn't been quite aware of. <a href="https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-10/msg00046.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-10/msg00046.html</a> I also found this other suggestion for Ada which is interesting? It would probably be quite the task to verify that output & document it properly, but it should also just work. <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/bootstrapping" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bootstrapping</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/programming" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Programming</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/languages" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Languages</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/ada" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ada</a> <a class="hashtag" href="https://udongein.xyz/tag/pascal" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a>

🔏 Matthias WiesmannOld Pascal Code <a href="https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/40595" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://wiesmann.codiferes.net/wordpress/archives/40595</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ClassicMac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ClassicMac</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pascal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pascal</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TigresVolants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TigresVolants</a>

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