International Pascal Congress 2023

[Joanna]

Every field in a class is, pretty much, a global class-instance variable accessible by every method in the class and it is quite common to see groups of fields that "belong" with some methods and definitely don't belong with other methods but, those methods still have access to them. 

Putting variables inside of a class encapsulates them so that there is more control of how they are accessed from outside of the class. Also if you only want certain class methods to access class variables you could put the variables and methods which access them in an ancestor class and have them private or protected .

Oop is probably not for everyone or every type of project but for things things like frame classes I find it useful.

[Sergio MT]

Dear Pascal-world colleagues,
I’m bringing you news I think you’ll like. I can announce the invited speakers who will give a plenary talk in the International Pascal Congress 2023. The invited speakers and their plenary talks are the following:

Dr. Johannes W. Dietrich:
Title: “Systems Endocrinology – Shaping an Emerging Medical Discipline with Object Pascal“

Michael Van Canneyt
Title: "Free Pascal: Past, Present and Future."

Marco Cantù
Title: "Delphi's Object Pascal Evolution"

Dr. Michalis Kamburelis
Title: "Developing games and graphic visualizations in Pascal"

Primož Gabrijelčič
Title: Parallel programming in Pascal: How we should stop focusing on threads and start writing functional code

Bruno Fierens
Title: "Object Pascal everywhere"

Daniele Teti
Title: "Developing frontend and backend in Pascal: past, present and future"

The International Pascal Congress (IPC) will be held from July 3 to 7, 2023, in Salamanca, one of the most beautiful cities in Spain and a UNESCO heritage site. The event will serve as a meeting point for all players in the software industry working with Pascal, and we’re aiming to boost the Pascal community into becoming an innovative and cutting-edge community again. You can find more information about the event on the website https://pascalcongress.com More news coming…

[Thaddy]

I have arranged for the dogs and the cat to be taken care for. Now, just the wife...

[Sergio MT]

I have arranged for the dogs and the cat to be taken care for. Now, just the wife...

I am thinking to organize some parallel activity to wives, husbands, kids,  boyfriends or girlfriends so they will support to go to Salamanca too 

[Curt Carpenter]

Too far away for my budget, but I would be interested in the proceedings if your university plans to publish them.

[VTwin]

I guess this is a thread about "International Pascal Congress 2023"?

This is exciting news to me. I attend 2 or 3 professional conferences each year for 40 years or so. There is nothing like meeting folks in person.

Keep us posted on the program! I would love to attend if possible. Thanks Sergio.

[Sergio MT]

I guess this is a thread about "International Pascal Congress 2023"?

This is exciting news to me. I attend 2 or 3 professional conferences each year for 40 years or so. There is nothing like meeting folks in person.

Keep us posted on the program! I would love to attend if possible. Thanks Sergio.

Thanks a lot! It is being a lot of work! I only hope that the community will take advantage of it. Such an event can be a big boost to get the Pascal community noticed by the IT world.

[Sergio MT]

Dear friends, you can already see on the website some of the courses that you will be able to attend if you come to IPC 2023 (in addition to the plenary lectures). On the website you will find the description of each of them with the content. Each course will consist of 4 sessions of 1 hour. You will have to choose 3 of the courses that will be offered, and that do not coincide in hours, as some of the courses will run in parallel (the schedules of each course will be known later). All courses will be given by well-known members of the Pascal world community.
The names of the courses are the following:

+ Getting high performance using the Lazarus IDE.
Michael Van Canneyt

+ Writing multithreaded programs in Pascal.
Primož Gabrijelčič.

+ An introduction to deep learning with CAI NEURAL API.
Dr. Joao Paulo Schwarz Schuler

+ Developing games using Castle Game Engine.
Dr. Michalis Kamburelis

+ Developing advanced Client/Server applications with Pascal.
Emilio Pérez

You can find all the details of the courses in the web site.
https://www.pascalcongress.com/courses.html

As you can see Michael Van Canneyt is going to give an interesting course. I think it is a very interesting because many times we fight with the IDE, and he is going to explain all the secrets of Lazarus.

Do not leave it until the last day to register you in the IPC 2023, we have a maximum number of places for the event and also, we have a deal with 4-star hotel with a very good price but the number of rooms on offer is even more limited (just 100 rooms) and the people is already registering.

[Sergio MT]

Dear friends,

I am happy to announce that we have added another course in the International Pascal Congress 2023 . The title of the course is

"Using FPC and Lazarus to program webassembly".

The instructor will be  Michael Van Canneyt. https://www.pascalcongress.com/courses.html

Also, Detlef D. Overbeek, Michael Van Canneyt and  Mattias Gaertner will be presenting Lazarus and FreePascal Foundation  in the sessions that IPC 2023 offers to who want to present  open projects. This will be a great oportunity to see them in person and hear the plans of the foundation  and know how to collaborate with their projects.

 https://www.pascalcongress.com/open_projects.html 

The International Pascal Congress will be from 3rd of July to 7th of July this year in Salamanca (Spain) there will be many interesting courses and plenary talks and the registration period is open. The event is hosted by the University of Salamanca. The early registration has a very low price, just 295 euros, the prices is so low because we want everyone comes to the IPC, so don't wait too much to book your seat

 https://www.pascalcongress.com/

[Sergio MT]

Dear colleagues,

remember that there are only 3 weeks left of reduced price to register (295 €).

This event is completely unique offer to upgrade and modernize your knowledge in Pascal technologies to develop applications. We are organizing this event just to promote Pascal, because we love it.

All those who can attend do not think too much because if it turns out that because of laziness many of you think well there will be another edition, there will not be. Only if you attend there will be a new edition.

If anyone hasn't attended this type of event before, and is worried about not knowing anyone, don't worry about that, because it doesn't matter that you don't know anyone, because that's the fantastic thing, you arrive without knowing anyone and end up leaving with new friendships and lots of new knowledge.

In case you work in a company, and you want us to send information to your company, let me know by direct message and we will send the information.

https://pascalcongress.com

[Sergio MT]

He is one of our keynote speakers in the International Pascal Congress 2023!  It will be an amazing week! Don't miss  this opportunity! Only two weeks with the early registration prize!  The amazing prize of 295 euros!!  Register now!  https://pascalcongress.com

[Thaddy]

Due to family circumstances I will probably not attend, but I will make an effort.

[jwdietrich]

Please note that the early registration will end on Monday (April 10th).

Registration is 295 € up to this day, from April 11th to March 1st 340 €, after that day 370 € per person.

http://www.pascalcongress.com/registration.html

[jwdietrich]

Due to numerous requests, the deadline for early registration has been extended to April 22nd, 2023.

https://pascalcongress.com/registration.html

[Sergio MT]

Dear Pascal-world colleagues,

we are happy to announce the call for  the Niklaus Wirth  Award for the most Valuable Contributor.  We need your help to spread about it.

All the info ---> https://pascalcongress.com/awards.html

Also, some people wrote to us telling that unfortunately they cannot come to the event, but they would like to push forward the event with a donation. We have created this option. The money will be used to  push forward the Niklaus Wirth Award and to   record and edit the plenary talks ( it is an unexpected expense, but more people donate more plenary talks will be recorded). The digital material will be uploaded  to YouTube, so all the community can enjoy it for free.   Support from the Pascal community is important for the International Pascal Congress 2023  and your donation will empower the Pascal community.   .

http://pascalcongress.com/sponsorship.html

Thansk a lot!
Sergio