This takes me back, my first adventure in programming was as a 12 year old creating a Pong clone using Turbo Pascal on DOS. It came in handy later as a 20 year old when I was doing freelance as a Delphi dev. Amazing to see Pascal on HN.
At around the same age I learned a version/imitation of Object Pascal for scripting the PIRCH IRC client on windows 95. It was neet when a friends dad who was a professional programmer showed me the latest version of Delphi, which he was pretty excited about, and I could actually understand most of what he was showing me.
The really interesting thing to me is when Modula 2/3 and Oberon come up --- I'd _really_ love to see a bare-metal implementation of Oberon for the Raspberry Pi which was:
- had a web browser which could handle the basics of the modern web
I mean, the documentation is sixteen pages --- seems like a perfect fit --- still waiting on a tablet shell for an rPi 5 (and still need to get an rPi 5 Compute Module for it), so will be looking into it then....
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- actually ported (_not_ emulated) w/ native drivers
- easy to install
- performant
- had an attractive GUI
- had a web browser which could handle the basics of the modern web
I mean, the documentation is sixteen pages --- seems like a perfect fit --- still waiting on a tablet shell for an rPi 5 (and still need to get an rPi 5 Compute Module for it), so will be looking into it then....