[fpc-devel] PR: Advocates needed

[Vincent Snijders]

Daniël Mantione wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Check this...
> 
> http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/01/09/1647217
> 
> ... huge accounting program. Formerly propietary, now GPL, that is in need 
> from porting from Delphi to Free Pascal to become true free software.
> 
> The only problem is, they are not only considering Free Pascal, 
> but also Python.
> 
> Goal: convince the Turbocash project that Free Pascal is the best choice, 
> at least much better than Python.
> - http://www.turbocash.co.za
> 
> It is big in the press, LWN mentions it as well:
> 
> http://lwn.net/Articles/168143/
> 
> Please check if it appears on other news sites and please guard the sites 
> mentioned for "Pascal is a language for noobs"-like trolling.
> 

I read this story before:
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=756

Also this is not the first mention of porting TurboCash to fpc/lazarus:
http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php?name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=437

Vincent