-=> mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-   
      
    ml> yeah, screw videos... ummm... the FPC guys will say that most Delphi   
    ml> related books are ok... some few things might be different but for the   
    ml> most part, they're ""the same""... also, one of the guys on either the   
    ml> FPC or Lazarus teams wrote a book which is available but i don't know   
    ml> where or for how much... i pull the three FPC and Lazarus related   
    ml> mailing lists... there's also a forum but i can't stand its   
    ml> interface... the mailing list works great for me and that's where i get   
    ml> most of my help when i need it...   
      
   Ahh, OK.  Seems we work in similar ways.  Mailing lists are good.  Yeah, forums   
   suck, and mostly due to interface and network lag issues.  A real retrograde   
   step in my opinion - BBSs do standalone messaging systems so much more   
   efficiently.  I'll have to check out the lists.   
      
    ml> Lazarus is a RAD environment but it is also a good editor environment,   
    ml> too... help is available from within the editor just like in the TP/BP   
    ml> days... i still do a lot of procedural coding with some little bits of   
    ml> OOP stuffs... i haven't done anything at all with Lazarus' RAD   
    ml> capabilities other than a few experimental things from some document or   
    ml> other i found...   
      
   Dabbling with Lazarus, it felt a bit TP like, brought back some old memories.   
   :)  Looks like it's worth a bit of time playing.  I've dabbled in a little OOP,   
   mostly Java several years ago, when I was working on a project that used Java   
   libraries, otherwise my coding has been procedural too.   
      
    ml> as an aside, i'm looking for mark may's mksrcmsg libraries converted to   
    ml> FPC... i'm not looking very hard but i do have several projects that   
    ml> would really benefit from being recompiled with the updated code and   
    ml> being 32bit or 64bit instead of 16bit... if you don't remember mark's   
    ml> code, it is the OOP library for accessing JAM, MSG, SQUish, HMB and old   
    ml> EZYcom message bases... i think there's also some QWK stuff available   
    ml> but that's probably in the sources he released of his Mythical Kingdom   
    ml> BBS package...   
      
   Not familiar with those, but they sound rather interesting.  I saw very little   
   source in the heyday of my BBSing, unfortunately. :(  My BBSing days were also   
   not long after the point in time when I decided to stay away from programming,   
   other than for uni assignments and the occasional small project.  One of my   
   last of those small projects was a Morse code tutor (because in those days, I   
   had no other way to obtain one!), which I later ported to run on the Microbee   
   (an Australian Z80 CP/M machine).  All of the code, excepr for the timing and   
   sound routines ported fine into TP on CP/M.  I had to work with a friend to   
   write custom functions to replace the inbuilt ones in the DOS version of TP.    
   Those functions were written in assembler, and getting the timing loops right   
   was an interesting exercise. :)   
      
      
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