Just curious: do you use an IDE, and if so, which one ?
The thing that drew me in to Object Pascal was getting Delphi back in 1996 (I think it cost $200), and being just amazed at how much I could do out-of-the-box without knowing a thing about Object Pascal. The productivity with IDEs like Delphi/Lazarus is just astounding.
I look at setup instructions for many languages today and just cannot believe what I'm reading. Pages and pages of instructions on putting together a dev environment just to compile a Hello World program. It's just insane to me...
I've used Lazarus when I've had small GUI apps I wanted to make. Other times, I'll just use Turbo Pascal in DOSBox when I'm just trying to have some fun and make simple little games.
The thing that drew me in to Object Pascal was getting Delphi back in 1996 (I think it cost $200), and being just amazed at how much I could do out-of-the-box without knowing a thing about Object Pascal. The productivity with IDEs like Delphi/Lazarus is just astounding.
I look at setup instructions for many languages today and just cannot believe what I'm reading. Pages and pages of instructions on putting together a dev environment just to compile a Hello World program. It's just insane to me...