[fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

[ik]

On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org>wrote:

> Am 17.02.2013 09:55, schrieb ik:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Florian Klämpfl
> > <florian at freepascal.org <mailto:florian at freepascal.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     Am 16.02.2013 20:45, schrieb geneb:
> >     > On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 <tel:2013>, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> >     >
> >     >>> I tried something like this before and I was suprised at the
> >     dearth of
> >     >>> Lazarus and FreePascal bloggers. Getting Lazarus and FPC
> developers,
> >     >>> (let alone users) to blog about their experiences is like pulling
> >     >>> teeth.I think a law should be passed requiring FPC users to blog
> >     about
> >     >>> their usage and experiences at least twice a year.
> >     >>
> >     >> Maybe not everyone is so enthousiast about blogs as you ?
> >     >>
> >     >> I agree with Florian; I prefer to work on FPC.
> >     >
> >     > While I can certainly understand your point of view, the more
> people
> >     > that are talking about FPC and Lazarus, the more people that will
> >     become
> >     > exposed to it.
> >
> >     Isn't the svn rss feed not the best opportunity to talk about
> >     fpc/lazarus :)?
> >
> >
> > When I hear stuff like "sure pascal is cool but lack of good string
> > support", I think that it is more self explanatory then anything.
> >
> > At the local open source community I'm a known evangelist for Object
> > Pascal, and my blog is full of code, text etc, regarding stuff in object
> > pascal.
> > Some of the people over here that actually started using FPC/Lazarus
> > arrived due to my blog posts, so spreading the word is very important
> imho.
>
> It is. But some might code, others might evangelize. What I wanted to
> say: those who are interested what happens in FPC in detail might follow
> also the svn rss feed. There is simply no need for the developers to
> blog about this.
>

I disagree on this, but that's ok


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