[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

[Marco van de Voort]

> Well there are some things ofcourse wrong with Free Pascal:
> 
> 1. First the name:
> "Free"
> Bussiness people don't believe in "Free".

First you must define a target in business people. Which is easy. First and
for all, FPC is interested in business people that have something to offer.

And offering a helping hand in developing/improving the project is more
important than money here.

The kind of business people that don't believe in "Free" are in general not
our target in the first place.
 
> 2. Free Pascal Quality itself:
> 
> When I see simple things not working like:
> Read or Readln or whatever, I run away screaming from Free Pascal ;) :)

I don't get this.

> 3. It doesn't have an advanced development environment like Visual Studio 
> 2005 or Delphi 7 / Delphi 2007 (last one sucky though)
> 
> I have seen onde IDE Lazareus or something like that and it's a clone of 
> Delphi 7 but it doesn't have the quality yet :)

That goes for anything that still must be developed/fixed. 
 
> 4. Pascal sounds oooooldddddddddd and reminds people of the 16 bit dos/days. 
> Yak ! Full of frustration, limitations, and code going into the waste basket 
> ;) :)

But are we responsible for those feelings? Lots of non C users describe C as
a overgrown macro assembler, but I don't see C changing its name. 

Moreover rebranding hurts our image with users that we are already have in a
kind of feeble attempt to get users we might never get anyway?

> 5. Special features for Free Pascal, what does it offer that the other tools 
> do not ?

That is fairly easy. None of the tools you compare it with above is
multiplatform.
 
> I know free pascal can cross compile but for now I only need to compile for 
> Windows 32 bit and maybe Windows 64 bit in the future ;)
> 
> What features does free pascal offer for Win32 or Win64 development which 
> other environments do not ?

I've seen no Win64 Delphi like. And one can't seriously compare MFC to
Delphi. FPC's main goal is portability anyway, not competing with the
existing tools on Win32 head on.
 
> It has to stand out to attract developers ;)

It already does.