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Posted by jpluimers on 2022/07/13
For a very long time (about 2 decades) Duncan Murdoch had his home page at www8.pair.com/dmurdoch which somewhere in 2021 has moved to
I figured that out thanks to some help from [Wayback/Archive] Pair Networks (@pairnetworks) / Twitter.
So you need to do a replacement of many URL link prefixes
http://www8.pair.com/dmurdoch/http://murdoch-sutherland.com/For instance some old and new pages:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2021/12/21
Cool!
{Wayback] www.copperwood.com/pub/FreePascalFromSquareOne.pdf
This is the FreePascal adoption of Borland Pascal from Square One: Duntemann, Jeff
Via: [Archive.is] Jeff Duntemann on Twitter: “I adapted my book Borland Pascal 7 From Square One for FreePascal. This involved cutting out obsolete stuff like the BGI and TurboVision, and adding a few things here and there. I then released it as a free PDF ebook: #pascal #programmingisfun … “
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2020/10/07
Boy, I wish there was both an Embarcadero sanctioned grammar (see Delphi code completion fail with anonymous methods – Stack Overflow) and a DCU parser.
This might work for DCP files as well, since the PKX0 signature at the start of DCP files is in [WayBack] DCU32INT/DCP.pas at master · rfrezino/DCU32INT · GitHub.
Being able to dump DCP files makes it way easier to create documenting a matrix of all DCP files and units, to their interdependencies and containments become clear (including any unit scopes).
Right now that is only documented from the unit to the package on the page of the unit (see for instance [WayBack] System.SysUtils – RAD Studio API Documentation), not the other way around. This is a pain to select which packages you need in your project when building with packages.
The list at [WayBack] Unit List – RAD Studio API Documentation (which actually is an “Alphabetical list of unit scopes, along with miscellaneous units that have no unit scope.” is only partially helpful, especially as for instance the System unit page at [WayBack] System – RAD Studio API Documentation is 90% about the System unit scope, has the System unit itself about a 3rd down and does not mention it lives in the rtl.dcp package.
The list at [WayBack] Deciding Which Runtime Packages to Use – RAD Studio is even worse than the unit list, as it misses many useful packages (like dsnap)
For my link archive:
Johan wanted to create a compiler symbol table from the binary DCU files (unlike DelphiAST which does it from the Pascal source files).
From the pre-Delphi era, I found back some info from my own archive:
In the Turbo Pascal days, you had TW1UNA and TPUUNA by William L. Peavy, which I think led to INTRFC from Duncan Murdoch (or maybe vice versa) which got updated to Turbo/Borland Pascal 7 format by Milan Dadok (see [Wayback/Archive] http://sources.ru/pascal/hacker/intrfc70.htm). Since the basic format of DCU files is very similar to that, my guess is that DCU32INT built on that.
Later I found [Wayback/Archive] The Programmer’s Corner » TPU60C.ZIP » Pascal Source Code also by William L. Peavy and Wayback/Archive] Duncan Murdoch’s Programs .
www8.pair.com links to murdoch-sutherland.com–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/12/12
The syntax is documented. In the Turbo Pasal 3 documentation, i.e. the Z80 era.
Source my answer to [WayBack] Delphi ^A syntax: Documented, implied, or undocumented? – Stack Overflow (I have added some WayBack Internet Archive links below) as it is from the Turbo Pascal era where the caret was introduced to support control characters:
This is from long ago as an escape character to enable you to have consts for control characters in a more readable way.const CtrlC = ^C; begin Write(Ord(CtrlC)); end.This defines a Char constant with value
#3, then writes3in Borland Pascal 7, and I remember seeing it years before that too.I just checked the Turbo Pascal 5.0 and Borland Pascal 7.0 languages guides, but could not find it, so it seems undocumented.
Edit: I do remember this was a Borland thing, and just [WayBack] checked: it is not part of the ISO Pascal standard (formerly this was ANSI Pascal Standard, thanks Sertac for noticing this).
It [WayBack] is documented in the Free Pascal documentation [WayBack].
SGI uses the backslash as escape character, as per their docs [WayBack].
More Edit: I found it [WayBack] documented in Delphi in a Nutshell and the [WayBack] Delphi Basics site.
Found it: Just found it on page 37 of the Turbo Pascal 3 Reference Manual [WayBack].
(Marco van de Voort found the Free Pascal documentation)
It in fact originates in the 1984 Turbo Pascal 1 edition, as per the [WayBack] Turbo_Pascal_Reference_Manual_Feb84.pdf:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2019/04/05
Back in my school days, this was the best Pascal book you could get: “Advanced Pascal Programming Techniques” – Google Search.
This is Apple Pasca, USD Pascal, first Turbo Pascal era.
Sadly, getting English books in The Netherlands was hard. So I had to do with books from Academic Press which not as good.
Via:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 