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

[Richard Ward]

>> 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.
>
> Like Lazarus?
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Yes, I think this would be a good candidate to build an IDE for  
education use from.   For beginning computer science classes I think a  
simpler IDE would be more suitable and for advanced courses, the  
complete environment could be used.  I also like the concept of  
Ingemar Ragnemalm's Lightweight IDE on the Macintosh Platform which  
takes out a lot of the complexity of Xcode and can easily be used by  
beginners.   It is also supports other languages like Java and C which  
might be attractive for CS curriculums.  Although it runs on Macs,  
porting it should not be an overly onerous task since it builds in FPC  
and targets intel core duo cpus.   Lazarus runs on at least two  
platforms if not more.   I'm not totally up to speed on it myself.    
But both LW IDE and Lazarus are working now.  It is just a matter of  
the feasibility of selling the idea to whomever.   The educational  
market I thought might be more receptive for various reasons.

-Richard Ward