Hello...
I think i will also continu to work more with Delphi and FreePascal and
Lazarus, all of them use a "modern" Object Pascal that is much more
powerful than pascal.
Delphi for example works on the following platforms:
Windows
Linux
macOS
iOS
Android
You have to look at the new Delphi here, it is very powerful:
https://www.embarcadero.com/products/delphi
Lazarus and FreePascal are very interesting to use, you have to look
at Lazarus here to notice it:
https://www.lazarus-ide.org/
What i love in Delphi and FreePascal and Lazarus is that
Delphi and FreePascal like ADA come with range checking and Run-time
checks that catch conversion from negative signed to unsigned , and
catch out-of-bounds indices of dynamic and static arrays and catch
arithmetic overflow etc. and you can also dynamically catch this
exception of ERangeError etc. and that's good for reliability.
But C++ and C don't have range checking etc. so that's not good in C++
and C and that's not good for reliability and it is not good for
safety-critical systems.
This is why i will also to continu to work more with Delphi and
FreePascal and Lazarus, and my Delphi projects can be used with C++Builder.
Look for example at my last invention , here is my last invention for
Delphi and FreePascal:
Scalable reference counting with efficient support for weak references
https://sites.google.com/site/aminer68/scalable-reference-counting-with-efficient-support-for-weak-references
You can find my other "inventions"(that are my scalable algorithms etc.)
and my other projects here:
https://sites.google.com/site/aminer68/
Also you can improve strict-type safety(and thus reliability) in Delphi
and FreePascal with variants like this:
--
program test;
uses VARIANTS,SYSUTILS;
var f:double;
a:integer;
FUNCTION ASSIGN(a,B:VARIANT):VARIANT;
begin
IF VARTYPE(A)=VARTYPE(B) THEN
BEGIN
A:=B;
RESULT:=A;
END
ELSE RAISE EXCEPTION.CREATE('ASSIGNEMENT NOT OK');
end;
begin
a:=2;
f:=a;
A:=ASSIGN(F,A);
end.
--
Here is the Vartype function:
http://docs.embarcadero.com/products/rad_studio/delphiAndcpp2009/HelpUpdate2/EN/html/delphivclwin32/Variants_VarType.html
Thank you,
Amine Moulay Ramdane.