[fpc-other] Goodbye, and thanks for the fishes

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:
> But I suppose all this begs the question: if one decides not to use 
> Object Pascal, what are the viable alternatives?

While hobbywise, I won't let go of FPC (and Wirthian languages) that
quickly, professionally it is different.

Currently, for me it is not really a problem (small company, my preference
has the most weight), but there was some discussion a while back of hiring
more programmers and cooperating with certain other (SCADA like) companies,
so there was some discussion.

In my case the only viable alternative is C++, but I'm somewhat embedded
with a bit of realtime requirement. Sometimes I think it would be easier
even now, but I have previous MFC experience, and that still scares me a
bit. (IOW, if you go back to C++, what will you use as GUI?)

In my previous job, I was more standard business apps, and then the only
viable alternative is C# IMHO.

One doesn't have to like it, but if I'm leaving Pascal because it is too
tiring to defend being in a niche, then you won't pick up some other niche,
and the above are (to me) the only viable choices.