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

Gustavo Enrique Jimenez gejimenez at gmail.com
Tue Oct 13 00:41:04 CEST 2009


2009/10/12 Rainer Stratmann <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>:
> 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...


Download fpc-2.2.4-3.i386.deb.tar and lazarus_0.9.28-0.i386.deb.tar

tar -xf *.tar
dpkg -i *.deb      <- as root

Gustavo



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