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On 2/27/12 10:33 AM, Noa Shiruba wrote:
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<div>On 2012/02/27, at 23:14, Frank Church <<a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:vfclists@gmail.com">vfclists@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:I think somehow a way must be found of getting Pascal
identified with Free Pascal on the Linux platform if it is the
most widely used. </div>
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<div>I think that is probably already the case, though others
may feel free to chime if they disagree. <br>
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Unfortunately, as soon as you mention "Pascal" many, many
developers, especially in the USA, turn up their noses and run for
the hills, so identifying FPC with "Pascal" would NOT help in
growing the adoption of FPC.<br>
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Ages ago Pascal acquired the reputation of being a incomplete
language suitable only for teaching. Primarily that was due to the
primitive I/O and lack of practical runtime support of the earliest
versions. Once this happened that reputation has been almost
impossible to overcome in the wider arena of software development.
Those of us who have stuck with it have enjoyed the advantages it
provides, but the idea of making it cool again with the development
gurus in most shops is a lost cause. They have passed it over and
simply will not look back.<br>
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