[fpc-devel] PR: Advocates needed

[ik]

On 1/19/06, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> Does Python have any IDE comparable with lazarus?

As far as I know it does not have IDE at all.. The same with Perl and
almost anything else.
The only "IDE like" for GTK (To make visual things in GTK) that I know
of is Glade... but I can use it to develop Pascal programs as well...
so it's more like saying "Pascal is out Python is In".

It's easier to convert Delphi to FPC then to write everything from
scratch to any other language out there... specially Python.

Ido