Object Pascal - Programming language

Object Pascal is a programming language created in 1986.

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Object Pascal refers to a branch of object-oriented derivatives of Pascal, mostly known as the primary programming language of Embarcadero Delphi.. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of Object Pascal happened in https://gitlab.com/groups/freepascal.org/fpc/-/issues
Object Pascal on HOPL
See also: (24 related languages) X86, ARM, Free Pascal, PowerPC, SPARC, MIPS architecture, Oxygene, Java, JavaScript, Turbo Pascal, Pascal, Simula, Smalltalk, C#, Genie, Nim, iOS, Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris, Morfik, Visual Studio, Android, Delphi

Example from hello-world:

program ObjectPascalExample;

type
   THelloWorld = class
      procedure Put;
   end;

procedure THelloWorld.Put;
begin
   Writeln('Hello World');
end;

var
   HelloWorld: THelloWorld;

begin
   HelloWorld := THelloWorld.Create;
   HelloWorld.Put;
   HelloWorld.Free;
end.

Example from Wikipedia:

type
   THelloWorld = class
      procedure Put;
      begin
         PrintLn('Hello, World!');
      end
   end;

var HelloWorld := THelloWorld.Create;

HelloWorld.Put;

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	'Hello world'	'
MultiLine Comments	✓	(* A comment *)	{ }
Comments	✓	(* This is a multi-line comments and it will span multiple lines. *) { This is a single line comment in pascal }
Operator Overloading	✓
Constructors	✓
Semantic Indentation	X
Line Comments	X