Way back in the late 70's and early 80's I worked with Pascal on a CDC NOS machine. This past Summer I recently found a listing of an Adventure game that I played way back then. I researched, found Lazarus and Free Pascal, and started typing it in. One thing that didn't work was the CARD() function. For those of you who don't know it, it returns the number of items in a set variable. (For really obscure trivia, it was implemented as a single instruction on the CDC 60 bit architecture).
As I only had one type of set that I needed the function for, I coded up my own. But I was wondering when and why it disappeared, and if I should be aware of other items that may have gone away.
Tom A.
Planning on "publishing" the game on an Interactive Fiction site in within a month.