Learning FreePascal (compatible with Delphi), Wanted to Say Hi

[Coyo]

I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.

I'm currently learning how to use Lazarus (at
http://lazarus.freepascal.org ) and so far, I love pascal!

There is a massive amount of community support for Delphi, so I'm very
pleased that FreePascal is compatible with Delphi and Borland TurboPascal.

I've been getting into Usenet, Gopher, IRC and Advanced Direct Connect,
or even older protocols, as well as classic programming languages, which
I have found a lot more fun to program in than Ruby and Python, and
silly whippersnapper languages like Node Javascript, Scala and Clojure.

All the faddish newfangled languages target "platforms" like Adobe Flash
ActionScript, Microsoft Common Language Runtime and Web Browser
Javascript (such as Spidermonkey and V8), and the more this progresses,
the more I fall in love with ancient languages like Smalltalk, Common
Lisp, Pascal and Fortran.

Instead of Twitter and Facebook, I love Usenet.

Instead of Web APIs and XML, I love Gopher and yEnc or even uuencode.

Instead of Skype, Yahoo Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger, I love IRC.

I love IRC because it's easy to extend. Almost anything can be added as
CTCP and DCC CHAT protocols, providing more advanced filesharing and
voip telephony as advanced or more advanced than Skype or AIM.

I love Gopher, because I'm sick of the twisted and convoluted schemes
for turning the Web into things it was never designed or intended to do.
Gopher FORCES web developers to focus on content and substance, rather
than presentation and bling. Gopher enforces a structured and
content-centric mindset, returning to the FTP-like file-oriented
approach, as opposed to twisting the Web into eldritch monstrosities.

I love Usenet because it's fast and effecient, practically decentralized
and distributed as the Internet was intended to be from the beginning.
When DARPAnet was first created, it was intended to survive multiple and
prolonged nuclear bombardment, and to maintain communications in nuclear
warfare.

O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!

To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.

Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

[Freddy1X]

Post by Coyo
I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.

( cuts )
Of course, there are usenet groups for a lot of programming languages. When
I am not banging out something in Qbasic, I am using Python for "modern"
projects. I'm just a code hack really.

( Cuts, stuff that I pretty much agree with. )

I am surprised that you haven't gotten into MUCKs and MUDs, and the various
other acronym forums. How about Furrymuck?

Post by Coyo
O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!

I think most of the Internet founders are still kicking. <G>

Post by Coyo
To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.
Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

You should have been here at the start of "Eternal September".

Freddy,
long in the tooth.

[Coyo]

Post by Freddy1X

Post by Coyo
I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.

( cuts )
Of course, there are usenet groups for a lot of programming languages. When
I am not banging out something in Qbasic, I am using Python for "modern"
projects. I'm just a code hack really.
( Cuts, stuff that I pretty much agree with. )
I am surprised that you haven't gotten into MUCKs and MUDs, and the various
other acronym forums. How about Furrymuck?

Post by Coyo
O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!

I think most of the Internet founders are still kicking. <G>

Post by Coyo
To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.
Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

You should have been here at the start of "Eternal September".
Freddy,
long in the tooth.

Still kicking, huh? That's good to hear.

There's a lot of guys I want to buy beers for (or other beverages, if
they don't prefer beer. i'm not a beer kind of guy, but I'll buy it).


It's a pleasure to meet you, Freddy.

I know I'm pretty young, I just turned 26, but I do my homework, and
I've read up a lot of history on Mama Bell, MIT, IBM, Xerox, the vision
of Tim Berners-Lee, Alan Kay, Richard Stallman, Linux Torvalds, the
origins of the true hackers at MIT, the AI boom in the 80s, the criminal
history of Bill Gates and Paul Allen, the theft of very expensive (at
that time) timeshares on VERY expensive and high-maintenance mainframes,
the invention of the IBM compatible PC, the proliferation of clones, the
invention of the AGP graphics card slot, the first Voodoo 3D graphics
accelerators, the first wavetable sound cards, the shiny new 16-bit
Soundblaster, the evolution of coin-operated arcade games, the eventual
convergence of arcade games and PCs into consoles, the
VHS-versus-Betamax format war, the original 8" and later 5.25" floppy
diskettes, ZIP and JAZ drives, the story behind SCSI (intended to be
"Sexy," but ended up being called "scuzzy" instead), the origin of the
TAR archive format and the evolution of tape drives, and the story
behind the domain name system, about the design and construction of the
root domain name servers, the story behind why certain organizations
currently own enormous IPv4 address blocks and are doing nothing with
them, the stories behind how various standardization bodies were formed,
what their original goals were, and a ton of other very fascinating things.

Unfortunately, growing a UNIX-grade neckbeard does not equate to
recognition of competence. Can't blame me for trying, though.

[Ruaraidh Petrie]

Post by Freddy1X

Post by Coyo
I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.

( cuts )
Of course, there are usenet groups for a lot of programming languages. When
I am not banging out something in Qbasic, I am using Python for "modern"
projects. I'm just a code hack really.
( Cuts, stuff that I pretty much agree with. )
I am surprised that you haven't gotten into MUCKs and MUDs, and the various
other acronym forums. How about Furrymuck?

Post by Coyo
O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!

I think most of the Internet founders are still kicking. <G>

Post by Coyo
To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.
Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

You should have been here at the start of "Eternal September".
Freddy,
long in the tooth.

Hi there,

I am interested - what was usenet like before the start of 'Eternal
September'??

Thanks,

[coyo]

Post by Ruaraidh Petrie
Hi there,
I am interested - what was usenet like before the start of 'Eternal
September'??
Thanks,

Good question.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Probably spam-free, not full of idiots, very polite and courteous,
respectful, but also a bit slow. I wasn't there, but it's implied.

[THE COLONEL]

I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active [slaper-oo!]

Try learning a job for once, a real world job. Not this computer mumbo jumbo
that has no relevance.

[Coyo]

Post by THE COLONEL

I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active [slaper-oo!]

Try learning a job for once, a real world job. Not this computer mumbo
jumbo that has no relevance.

Look who doesn't have either a "real job" OR a self-employment.

It's colon-chan.

[Hunter of the Shadows]

Post by Coyo
I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.
I'm currently learning how to use Lazarus (at
http://lazarus.freepascal.org ) and so far, I love pascal!
There is a massive amount of community support for Delphi, so I'm very
pleased that FreePascal is compatible with Delphi and Borland TurboPascal.
I've been getting into Usenet, Gopher, IRC and Advanced Direct Connect,
or even older protocols, as well as classic programming languages, which
I have found a lot more fun to program in than Ruby and Python, and
silly whippersnapper languages like Node Javascript, Scala and Clojure.
All the faddish newfangled languages target "platforms" like Adobe Flash
ActionScript, Microsoft Common Language Runtime and Web Browser
Javascript (such as Spidermonkey and V8), and the more this progresses,
the more I fall in love with ancient languages like Smalltalk, Common
Lisp, Pascal and Fortran.
Instead of Twitter and Facebook, I love Usenet.
Instead of Web APIs and XML, I love Gopher and yEnc or even uuencode.
Instead of Skype, Yahoo Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger, I love IRC.
I love IRC because it's easy to extend. Almost anything can be added as
CTCP and DCC CHAT protocols, providing more advanced filesharing and
voip telephony as advanced or more advanced than Skype or AIM.
I love Gopher, because I'm sick of the twisted and convoluted schemes
for turning the Web into things it was never designed or intended to do.
Gopher FORCES web developers to focus on content and substance, rather
than presentation and bling. Gopher enforces a structured and
content-centric mindset, returning to the FTP-like file-oriented
approach, as opposed to twisting the Web into eldritch monstrosities.
I love Usenet because it's fast and effecient, practically decentralized
and distributed as the Internet was intended to be from the beginning.
When DARPAnet was first created, it was intended to survive multiple and
prolonged nuclear bombardment, and to maintain communications in nuclear
warfare.
O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!
To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.
Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

I used to write PASCAL programs in college. Now I mostly write C# and
C++ programs.

[Coyo]

Post by Hunter of the Shadows

Post by Coyo
I have no idea if this newsgroup is still active, but I love Usenet, so
I thought I'd say hi anyway.
I'm currently learning how to use Lazarus (at
http://lazarus.freepascal.org ) and so far, I love pascal!
There is a massive amount of community support for Delphi, so I'm very
pleased that FreePascal is compatible with Delphi and Borland
TurboPascal.
I've been getting into Usenet, Gopher, IRC and Advanced Direct Connect,
or even older protocols, as well as classic programming languages, which
I have found a lot more fun to program in than Ruby and Python, and
silly whippersnapper languages like Node Javascript, Scala and Clojure.
All the faddish newfangled languages target "platforms" like Adobe Flash
ActionScript, Microsoft Common Language Runtime and Web Browser
Javascript (such as Spidermonkey and V8), and the more this progresses,
the more I fall in love with ancient languages like Smalltalk, Common
Lisp, Pascal and Fortran.
Instead of Twitter and Facebook, I love Usenet.
Instead of Web APIs and XML, I love Gopher and yEnc or even uuencode.
Instead of Skype, Yahoo Messenger and AOL Instant Messenger, I love IRC.
I love IRC because it's easy to extend. Almost anything can be added as
CTCP and DCC CHAT protocols, providing more advanced filesharing and
voip telephony as advanced or more advanced than Skype or AIM.
I love Gopher, because I'm sick of the twisted and convoluted schemes
for turning the Web into things it was never designed or intended to do.
Gopher FORCES web developers to focus on content and substance, rather
than presentation and bling. Gopher enforces a structured and
content-centric mindset, returning to the FTP-like file-oriented
approach, as opposed to twisting the Web into eldritch monstrosities.
I love Usenet because it's fast and effecient, practically decentralized
and distributed as the Internet was intended to be from the beginning.
When DARPAnet was first created, it was intended to survive multiple and
prolonged nuclear bombardment, and to maintain communications in nuclear
warfare.
O, how far we have fallen from grace! The founders must be spinning in
their graves so rapidly you could attach electric generators to the tops
of their skulls and solve the world energy crisis!
To the other newsgroups, I am learning Perl and figured it would start
an interesting conversation in the other two.
Usenet is a small community these days. It makes me a sad panda.

I used to write PASCAL programs in college. Now I mostly write C# and
C++ programs.

Damned kids and their newfangled C# and Java.NET.

They just don't make programming languages like they used to.

Damn whippersnappers need to get off my lawn.

[coyo]

Post by Hunter of the Shadows
I used to write PASCAL programs in college. Now I mostly write C# and
C++ programs.

*Shrugs*

Most people these days write C and C++. I'm not saying it isn't
practical, I just consider it boring and plain-jane.

[Maynard A. Philbrook Jr.]

Post by coyo

Post by Hunter of the Shadows
I used to write PASCAL programs in college. Now I mostly write C# and
C++ programs.

*Shrugs*
Most people these days write C and C++. I'm not saying it isn't
practical, I just consider it boring and plain-jane.

FreePascal with Lazarus IDE isn't too bad. I just wish they
could get the components to install dynamically and smarten up
the compiler a bit to handle complex arrangements.

Jamie

[coyo]

Post by Maynard A. Philbrook Jr.
FreePascal with Lazarus IDE isn't too bad. I just wish they
could get the components to install dynamically and smarten up
the compiler a bit to handle complex arrangements.
Jamie

That would be nice. Wouldn't that make it more like smalltalk? My
understanding is that smalltalk is like that.

[tom]

Coyo, I haven't seen you online in a very long time. It's like you
dropped off the internet. Let me know if your still out there.