[fpc-other] Re: Pascal Showcase Project/Education

[Richard Ward]

Would there be a benefit and/or opportunity to do a project using  
Pascal directed at a college curriculum and audience such as a mini  
operating system, or development environment, or database application,  
or used for teaching and training purposes?  Not to show that PAscal  
is "just" a teaching language but that real/complex applications can  
be built with it.   Getting it exposed to a young audience would not  
hurt and FPC (or GPC) would not be a dead end since you have a very  
evolved open source framework available that can be scaled to large  
projects.   You might even be able to get a new OS built if you had a  
large body of new programmers trained in Pascal and can see the  
benefits of using it compared to other alternatives.  A key part of  
this I think would be an IDE which is much easier to use than what is  
currently peddled commercially.   It wouldn't hurt if that IDE was  
written in Pascal.   Just a thought.

-Richard Ward