Thanks, Iznogoud. Again, I'm sure you're right, but I have plenty of good C and C++ books and use them often to translate to Pascal. For Brian I almost put up links to an AVR microcontroller assembler written in Pascal, that I then expanded the names to more descriptive names. But I don't think anybody would be interested anyway. If you want to play with strings and arrays and records, Pascal does it right. One reason the DOD language Ada is derived from Pascal. I doubt anybody can follow all those pointers, pointers to pointers, and the memory (programmer and computer) management of C and C++. So C++ adopts pascal rules. A Text File and String and Record are the basic computer storage data. Functions and Procedures the basic programming method. A Begin and an End define a block of processing. Constants, Types, and Variables are also basic programming tools. If you copy and paste that XForms html to a syntax highlighted editor (with tabs set to 4 spaces) you will see the logic layout in color. Most of the confusing stuff is converting old style Pascal strings to/from a pointer to a character array (of unknown length) required by the XForms C library. You never know how long a string is in C until you open the box (so to speak). Again, young people might be crazy to learn Pascal, or crazy not to. But it is still a very important option for serious projects, and I'm grateful to the freepascal team. Iznogoud wrote: > Rick, > C++ has been around for many years now. It surely is more like C than Pascal... > It is worth learning, at any age, if you have the free time. Start with Dennis > Richie's book on C and make a quick leap to C++. Most complicated pieces of > software are made with C++ now. I have said this before, that in very high > performance applications one has to be careful in using C++ intrinsics, like > anything STL, and should pay attention to the underlying algorithms that > support those templates. If you are doing parallel computing, you need to look > a lot deeper. > > I guess this is for anyone's information to the extent that they care. > > > Brian, I looked at your project on Bitbucket and at its website. It is very > likely that the project has no downloads, or that Atlassian wants some money > in order to turn on premium features so that you can get that data. As of > recently I put some things on Github, to share with others. I do not think > Github gives any download activity or anything beyond the commit analytics. > > Also, for someone who is so crazy about "top posting" I find it very surprising > that you have a "the the" on that project's website! (I am just pulling your > leg bro.) > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >