jwentings story is a good one.

There is a little more sweet and sour in this. A fellow called Anders Hejlsberg worked for many years at Borland. His talents gave us Turbo Pascal and later...

Delphi is a rapid development system using Object Pascal for its language. A fancy IDE, like Visual C++ uses C++. Delphi came first.

Can you temporarily add a few write statements to your code to display and follow the value of cant_op?

What does your for loop code look like? The compiler obviously has a reason to skip!

Are there any good and free Pascal compilers out there?

The code shows you how to create a window without a titlebar that can be dragged with the mouse. Set the FormStyle property to fsStayOnTop. The form contains a small 18 button calculator. When you...

You can look at a selected file's date and time stamp and change it with this Delphi program. XP files need a little extra TLC, but it's taken care of too.

A data stream is used to load a bitmap image and convert it to a jpeg image. The converted image is displayed and saved to a .jpg file.

The function Delay() allows access to other events during the delay. For instance a certain key could be used to interrupt a lenghty delay. The Win32 API function Sleep() ignores events, maybe it...

This Delphi procedure sends the text contained in a multiline editbox (memo in Delphi lingo) to a printer. The font and font size can be specified.

Just to give you an idea what Delphi can do, here is a plot of the ever popular sin(x). I have put enough information into the code comments so you can build the form. The PaintBox Paint Event...

I think Borland gave one of the older versions (4?) of Delphi away for free. Check their site.

A function that takes a string and returns the number of words in the string. An example of using pointers in Pascal.

This is Delphi code, just testing if there is some interest.