[fpc-devel] PR: Advocates needed

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On 1/19/06, VisionForce <webmaster at visionforceweb.com> 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.

The last time I used VB (version 6), it took me a way too much work
for the same thing I wanted to do in Delphi.
And .NET contain some very scary features for everyone (It actually
execute your code in design time, so if I'll open a form, it will
execute everything in it's functions that regarding the open and
display things, and I can do some nasty things with it).

And it's not portable for other OS's. and IMHO, VB should have died so
long ago in the 80's when it syntax became obsolete.

Ido

>
>
> 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?
>
>