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<pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre>The question I have is, if you’re a new programmer not wanting to make a
cross platform app what are building with Pascal? It’s still a good low
level compiled language and you can do things like SDL and games with it
but people are using C++ for that mainly and think FPC lags behind in some
areas like smart pointers and RAII.
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<p><font face="monospace">I am definitely not saying it isn't a good
low level language. That is one of the things I use to promote
the language. However, you are right in that we should invest in
being more than "the free Delphi alternative". Great, you're
attracting 10 people from the Delphi side, but for the average
shmuck they don't know what Delphi is or what it's about.
Lazarus can still market itself as a RAD editor, that's what it
is, but I don't know how you can market Pascal in general. Are
we forever destined to be the old GUI language, akin to VB6? We
have to think about how we can sell ourselves, otherwise
nobody's going to consider us. Or maybe they're a student, in
which case... /shrug</font><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Stefan-Iulian Alecu</pre>
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