Link clearance: history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePacal / …
Posted by jpluimers on 2014/02/25
This post lists a lot of links related to the history of Pascal / Object Pascal / Delphi Language / FreePascal / etc.
No mentioning of Pascal should start without Niklaus Wirth. At the time of writing he is still alive, hopefully he still is a the time of publication.
Link clearance.
- Quote on Niklaus Wirth: “Whereas Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way (‘Nick-louse Veert’), Americans invariably mangle it into ‘Nickel’s Worth.’ This is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.” — Introduction by Adriaan van Wijngaarden at the IFIP Congress (1965).
via: Niklaus Wirth – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. - ANSI-ISO PASCAL.
- ANSI-ISO Pascal Standards Documents.
- Object Pascal vs Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
- Object Pascal – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
- history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers.
(recommended reading for the broad perspective) which led to
The History of Pascal | Oxygene | RemObjects Software. - Turbo Pascal 5.5 OOP Guide (PDF)
- Adobe Photoshop 1.0 Source Code About 75% is in Pascal, get it from the Computer History Museum « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Garbo PC Software Archive.
- turboobj: Turbo Pascal object based programs
40 files found in turboobj. - turbopa1: Outdated, non-functional or incomplete Turbo Pascal material
40 files found in turbopa1. - turbopa45: Turbo Pascal versions 4.0, 5.0 and 5.5 specific material
26 files found in turbopa45. - turbopa6: Turbo Pascal version 6.0 specific programming material
23 files found in turbopa6. - turbopa7: Turbo Pascal version 7.0 or 6+ specific programming material
93 files found in turbopa7. - turbopas: Generic Turbo Pascal programming language material
151 files found in turbopas. - turbovis: Turbo Pascal TVision oriented programs
35 files found in turbovis. - turbspec: Special requirement TP programs, protected mode, BP, etc
37 files found in turbspec.
- turboobj: Turbo Pascal object based programs
- User Jim McKeeth – Programmers.
who wrote this question: history – What features contributed to the evolution of Pascal? – Programmers.
and this history article: The History of Pascal | Oxygene | RemObjects Software.
which was later on reddit: Exhaustive History of Pascal : delphi. - Object Pascal vs Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
- The Embercadero Museum has Turbo Pascal 5.5 Object Oriented Programming Guide
Categories on my blog:
- Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Apple Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Borland Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- DEC Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- FreePascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Object Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Think Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Turbo Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- UCSD Pascal « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
- Delphi « The Wiert Corner – irregular stream of stuff.
–jeroen
The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 
Jonathan said
Thankyou for the links to all the resources! I was one of the generation that learned Pascal as my first compiled language, while studying Computer Science back in the late 1980s. I loved Delphi too, and could never understand why VB triumphed over it (actually, I could… marketing).
jpluimers said
(: in secondary school (around age 14), I started with UCSD Pascal on an Apple ][ europlus, shortly after I mastered Integer and Applesoft basic. Then soon after it, I learned Turbo Pascal 1.0.
One of the reasons I post all of this is that I bought an Apple //e and //c a while ago, and I’m recreating the setup I used in school.
Jonathan said
I used Turbo Pascal 4 at college, and ran it from floppies at home on a hardware PC emulator for the Atari ST called “Supercharger” – I had forgotten all about it until I read your post :)
Bruce McGee said
“Europeans generally pronounce his name the right way”
Fair enough, but Europeans almost always pronounce “Delphi” wrong. :)
jpluimers said
Just ask the Greek for how to pronounce it right (;
http://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%94%CE%B5%CE%BB%CF%86%CE%BF%CE%AF
Bruce McGee said
Bah! What do they know? I go by the guy who helped name the product. :)
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/20396
Alexandre Machado said
Just go to Google translate and hear Delphi in greek. My knowledge about greek is nonexistent, but Google pronounce it as “Delphee” not “Delphy” :-)