<div dir="ltr">I am a little on the fence regarding the comment re neither fish or fowl...<div><br></div><div>each developer does their own thing in the language - whether that is writing something for platform X or working on database Y etc. Resources for learning are few and far between if you can find them. If you wanted to learn Pascal for web development, should there be something before re learning Pascal fundamentals?<br><br>If you ask people in the developer community what they know about "Pascal" what answers would you get?</div><div><br></div><div>Do they (people) understand how the language has evolved? What is possible in the language now!</div><div><br></div><div>While I don't do much C programming these days, I still read a bit about what has been added. </div><div><br></div><div>There maybe announcements in the fpc community, these appear on the forums vs fpc main site? In the news section, the latest entry is regarding the death of Wirth and then one before that was the 2021. This announcement was in 2022...</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,59468.0.html">https://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,59468.0.html</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 1:36 AM Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="gmail_quote">
<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Nov 15, 2024 at 9:23:41 PM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org" target="_blank">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> wrote:<br></div>
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First of all, Joanna on #fpc (and other fpc related IRC channels) has<br>blown off over 100 potential fpc users, including myself. I'm learning<br>Ada now, and liking it a lot.<br></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">what authority does she have to such things? </div></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" type="cite"><br>Second, fpc is neither fish nor fowl: It has way too much "stuff" to be<br>an easy to learn or use language, but that "stuff" isn't useful to most<br>non-Lazarus users.
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<div dir="ltr">I tend to agree. Feels like it’s somewhere in between C, Java and C++ without committing to either direction. Not a bad thing I guess but no inspiring to new users either.</div><div dir="ltr">
<br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Regards,</div> Ryan Joseph</div></div><br>
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