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Type-safe C-killer Delphi turns 30 (go.theregister.com)
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[–] Deebster@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Turbo Pascal was my first real programming language, and Delphi was pretty pleasant to use for GUI programs as I recall.

I'd never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago

I’d never even heard of Lazarus, I might have to try it for a nostalgia trip.

In case you want to look at a working Lazarus project, PeaZip uses it.

https://peazip.github.io/

[–] KamikazeRusher@lemm.ee 4 points 3 days ago

Same! My comp Sci class in high school started us off with Turbo Pascal and Delphi. You wouldn’t get C/C++ and Java exposure until your second year. I haven’t ever considered going back and re-exploring it though. Perhaps I should locate my old floppy disks with the original assignments on them and review just how awful my code was just a little over a decade ago.