[fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

[Rainer Stratmann]

Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 16:21 schrieb Gustavo Enrique Jimenez:
> 2009/10/12 Rainer Stratmann <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>:
> > Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 11:02 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
> >> > Remember, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, unsuitable for
> >> > commercial software development, which is why we have C.  :)
> >>
> >> And why should that be the case? What are the outstanding feature of C
> >> that make it so supperiour? It's illogical and hard to maintain syntax?
> >> Or is it just that it was available for free on all unix systems?
> >
> > Yes, it is available everywhere.
> > And it is easier to copy unix code then.
> >
> > Remember that it is still not easy to come to freepascal.
> > You have to configure a debian testing system and apt-get lazarus and so
> > on... Nearly nowhere the lazarus package is preinstalled.
>
> You don't need Debian Testing. My system is Debian Stable (i386) since
> 2001/2002. Never have had a serious problem installing
> Lazarus/Freepascal.

How do you install Lazarus/Freepascal with apt or else?
I am a friend of userfriendly software...