Posted by jpluimers on 2014/10/01
I’ve been experimenting with the Delphi hinting directives lately to make it easier to migrate some libraries to newer versions of Delphi and newer platforms.
Hinting directives (deprecated, experimental, library and platform) were – like the $MESSAGE directive – added to Delphi 6.
Up to Delphi 5 you didn’t have any means to declare code obsolete. You had to find clever ways around it.
Warnings for hinting directives
When referring to identifiers marked with a hinting directive, you can get various warning messages that depend on the kind of identifier: unit, or other symbol. Read the rest of this entry »
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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.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2009/10/12
Edit 20260223: added the e-mail header, relay mapping of e-mail addresses explanation and some archived links where needed, and some current links where the originals suffered from link rot.
I found back one of (the original Dutch link died, but is archived [Wayback/Archive] my earliest mail messages) [Wayback/Archive] my earliest mail messages: it is dated back in februari 1989.
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 89 09:07 N
From: <PCHPAPL%HLERUL52.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU>
Subject: TurboC list
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