358 points ofalkaed | 1 comments | 11 Oct 25 22:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Just curious and who knows, maybe someone will adopt it or develop something new based on its ideas.

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Havoc ◴[12 Oct 25 09:40 UTC] No.45556825[source]▶

Pascal/Delphi - especially in the educational context.

Crazy fast compiler so doesn't frustrate trial & erroring students, decent type system without the wildness of say rust and all the basic programming building blocks you want students to grasp are present without language specific funkiness.

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dlcarrier ◴[12 Oct 25 15:21 UTC] No.45558829[source]▶

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Check out Lazarus (https://www.lazarus-ide.org/) an open-source spiritual successor to Delhi's development environment.

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1. mikewarot ◴[13 Oct 25 08:20 UTC] No.45566049[source]▶

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Lazarus/Free Pascal is mostly awesome!

The bad part is the horrible legacy documentation system. 8(

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