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

[Mark J. Wood]

Richard Ward wrote:
> 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 
Huge undertaking. Vast. You'd be essentially rewriting C code for the 
rest of your life. Although, come to think about it, you could try 
translating RxDOS or something basic like that.
> 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.

Build a better mousetrap.

Regards,
M.