[themodelplumber]

Some recent personal projects with laz and fp got me pretty interested in it.

I have nothing impressive to show for my work except for a lot of retro-pride when I type in e.g. the snippet which triggers the Pascal program which tells me how old I am. With some bells and maybe a couple whistles.

I was surprised to learn that there was Pascal for the C64, which I thought was more of a "BASIC or bare metal" system.

I too was a victim of the great AP Pascal force-feed in my HS comp. sci. class...but fortunately at the same time there were demoscene programmers around the world blowing my mind with Pascal programs and it seemed like there were new projects to appreciate online (BBS) every day after school.

To whit: Someday I would like to write a Pascal raytracer that tells me how old I am, with emoji output, since my other ride is a text editor. (And if you don't like my driving, get off the sidewalk!)

[xet7]

For C64 and other retro platforms with Pascal, there is TRSE:

https://lemonspawn.com/turbo-rascal-syntax-error-expected-bu...

If coding with C, like text adventure games, then for example:

https://github.com/xet7/darkesthour

[bigpeopleareold]

Heh - I didn't do great in AP with Pascal either. I remember though trying to make it worth buying CodeWarrior for Mac OS (oh how the Internet changed everything ... :D ), which had a Pascal compiler, but I got overwhelmed looking at the Mac Toolbox docs and couldn't make much sense of it. (I know there was also MPW, but I didn't know how to get my hands on it.) The school computers ran Turbo Pascal on MS-DOS. I vaguely remember having to write programs on paper without a lot of access to those computers.

But, I tried FP last year. I wrote a program to mimic a small tool in the company I worked for. It was fun actually. At the time, I sort of wanted a lot to write stuff in Emacs. There is an LSP server for FP but it's not really complete.