On 4/19/2011 1:51 PM, the doctor wrote:

probably best done in ruby via cygwin then

Why not just run it under Linux?

Depends on your needs, comfort, and familiarity.. I was only offering the suggestion, if you wanted it under windows.

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Depends on your needs, comfort, and familiarity.. I was only offering the suggestion, if you wanted it under windows

I'll give it a try sometime and let you know the results...



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Re: Pascal and Delphi
By: Nightfox to the doctor on Thu Apr 14 2011 11:08 pm

Ruby is interpreted though, whereas Pascal is compiled to native code, isn't it? I can see advantages and disadvantages to each..

Nightfox

Modern implementations (or at least FPC) appear to compile to native code. Historically it has been interpreted to a run time code (P-code) similar to Java today or certain Basics.


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Re: Pascal and Delphi
By: Chris Perrault to Nightfox on Sun Jan 01 2012 01:47 am

Re: Pascal and Delphi
By: Nightfox to the doctor on Thu Apr 14 2011 11:08 pm

Ruby is interpreted though, whereas Pascal is compiled to native code, is it? I can see advantages and disadvantages to each..

Nightfox

Modern implementations (or at least FPC) appear to compile to native code. Historically it has been interpreted to a run time code (P-code) similar to Java today or certain Basics.

Er' sorry, I didn't check the date and catch how old the message was that I'm replying too. Diamond Mine just updated and apparently reset the Dovenet message pointers.



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