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Pascal is a programming language. Its primary purpose when it was launched was to provide a vehicle for teaching programming concepts to beginners. With previous languages, teachers had to spend too much time teaching the language, leaving less time for teaching programming concepts.

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The traditional (Scheme, Pascal) way to structure code is this: declare outer function declare inner function body of inner function body of outer function The where clause in Haskell moves ...
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I am self-learning Michael L. Scott's Programming Language Pragmatics. The following quote explains how deep binding and shallow binding are different in the presence of static scoping: program ...
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What i mean is something like: I have 2 array var and type, you can input the name of the variable on the var array and type of variable on the type array(type depend on language used), then i want to ...
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I'm working on a solution that should work in C++-Builder and Delphi, that's why I use Object Pascal syntax, but I'm not very familiar with it. I try to access a file mapping with a size that is not ...
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I'm making a Model View View-Model (MVVM) application using Delphi XE6. Since I'm using Pascal rather than C#, I need to manage destruction myself. I'm not sure how to handle form destruction. My ...
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I'm a Delphi pascal programmer, I use the latest Embarcadero delphi XE, and I would like to take advantage of design patterns such as Model view controller and model view view-model. However, there ...
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Some programing languages, notably Pascal, have a type of numbers called "real". However, mathematically speaking, these types aren't real. For them to be "real", these types have to be able to ...
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Where can I find Turbo Pascal dialect description/reference? Is it still availiable in some place? I'm looking for the famous Turbo Pascal dialect description/reference(yes, the one from 80s/90s time) ...
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I haven't worked with Pascal so far, and my problem is understanding the recursive aspects that prm assignment operators and how the final (correct) value is derived. Would someone please explain that ...
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I’m reading some Pascal code and everything is pretty straightforward except subranges. In the program I’m reading there’s a variable d with the following type declaration: array[0..22] of 0..15 ...
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In reading this blog post about Photoshop 1.0 I was surprised to learn that it was written in Pascal (Object Pascal to be exact). But you never hear about Pascal anymore. Why is that?
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Should the developers who creates programs with Delphi, FPC, Lazarus agree with the name of the language? This struck me since every possible variation not only adds confusion for new programmers, ...
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My understanding is that in the 1980s, and perhaps in the 1990s too, Pascal and C were pretty much head-to-head as production languages. Is the ultimate demise of Pascal only due to Borland's neglect ...
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What is the proper approach to functions that have side-effects in Delphi/Pascal? For example, I could have a boolean function DeleteFile that returns True if the file was deleted and False ...
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I was reading in the side bar of the Java language wiki page and it says it was influenced by Pascal and Delphi. this isn't the fact anymore, there are no references to Delphi on the entire referenced ...
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