[fpc-devel] Project Idea: Mini-FPC

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 10 Sep 2011, Jeff Duntemann wrote:

> If a "mini-FPC" were to be created to help popularize the Pascal language and 
> get beginners interested and up to speed, it would be more useful to provide 
> a simple IDE than a stripped-down compiler. The console FP IDE has never 
> worked well for me (crashes a lot) and Lazarus is very large and 
> intimidatingly complex. I'd rather see some effort put into an 
> easy-to-install beginner's programming environment than in pulling features 
> out of the compiler. I know this isn't the forum for that discussion, but I 
> did want to make the suggestion.

Maybe more effort should be put in the 'education' version of lazarus.
Someone already started this.

Michael.