From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f4fd2,23202754c9ce78dd X-Google-Attributes: gidf4fd2,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 114809,15edb893ef79e231 X-Google-Attributes: gid114809,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-01-19 16:52:06 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!sunqbc.risq.qc.ca!nf3.bellglobal.com!novia!novia!intgwlon.nntp.telstra.net!newsfeeds.bigpond.com!not-for-mail From: h_laws@bigpond.com (Mad Hamish) Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.eiffel,comp.lang.smalltalk Subject: Re: True faiths ( was Re: The true faith ) Message-ID: <3c4a149d.9839580@news.bigpond.com> References: <4idg3u40ermnp682n6igc5gudp7hajkea9@4ax.com> <3219936759616091@naggum.net> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.21/32.243 Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 00:55:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 144.138.215.54 X-Trace: newsfeeds.bigpond.com 1011487678 144.138.215.54 (Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:47:58 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 11:47:58 EST Organization: Telstra BigPond Internet Services (http://www.bigpond.com) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:24765 comp.lang.ada:19112 comp.lang.eiffel:5471 comp.lang.smalltalk:18224 Date: 2002-01-20T00:55:59+00:00 List-Id: On Wed, 16 Jan 2002 08:55:58 GMT, Espen Vestre wrote: >israel r t writes: > >> He either does not know what OOP is or else he is confusing Borlands >> proprietary Delphi extensions with Pascal. > >IRL he is right, isn't he? I mean: Isn't Delphi the only Pascal that >can be considered to be "alive & kicking"? Well Pascal tended to hang around for quite a while in education areas because a) it was originally designed for education b) they had it and what's the point of buying a new environment? Yahoo lists a couple of compilers available for Pascal now. > (I don't know Delphi, >but AFAIK, the OO extensions actually have a longer history, they >go back to Apple's Object Pascal) Delphi was built on top of Object Pascal, I'm not sure who originally did Object Pascal. -- "Hope is replaced by fear and dreams by survival, most of us get by." Stuart Adamson 1958-2001 Mad Hamish Hamish Laws h_laws@bigpond.com