[fpc-pascal]FP newbie

[Marco van de Voort]

> On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Marco van de Voort wrote:

> > The LCL is much more than a widget set. It is the base building block of a
> > RAD system. And also it quite Delphi VCL compatible in spirit (to allow easy
> > porting).
> >
> > Moreover wxWindows is relatively recent. It wasn't around in a stable form
> > when Lazarus was started.
> 
> Strange. As far as I know, it was around and used way before Lazarus
> appeared. It was already around at least in 1995, even before the first
> release of FPC...

In a usuable state to build Lazarus on top of I mean? The first time I heard
about it was 1997 I think, and then it was advocated as a small clean way
to make portable apps, no complete framework.