On 14/10/16 08:30, Michael Schnell via Lazarus wrote:
Of course there are decent drawbacks regarding relying too much on RAD and about not really understanding the fundamentals behind it. But in the end the addressees are non-computer engineers.
Seconded. If I could make a general observation: when teaching/supporting Pascal-style languages I've found it useful to completely decouple pointers, records and dynamic memory, irrespective of the fact that most books lump them in together by talking about linked lists and trees.
Records are a useful general-purpose way of organising data. Pointers are something that refer to e.g. a block of known format returned by the operating system, but are used much less in OO systems than they used to be. Only after those are understood should dynamic memory be introduced, if ever.
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