[fpc-devel] PR: Advocates needed

[Florian Klaempfl]

VisionForce wrote:
> You all may hate me after I say this, but creating software in VB or
> VB.NET goes very, very quickly. But I guess since you're trying to
> advocate Pascal right now, this information doesn't help you any.

Well, my personal experience is, that in total Delphi/Object Pascal is still
faster because it's less error prone.

> 
> 
> Sincerely,
> Alex C. Barberi
> Chief Executive Officer
> VisionForce
> http://www.visionforceweb.com
> 
> 
> On Jan 19, 2006, at 11:06, Florian Klaempfl 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?
> 
> 
> Does Python run as fast as FPC?
> 
> 
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