[fpc-pascal] Maybe a new fpc book :)

[Anthony W. Henry]

I missed one. Mr. Duntemann closed with this question:

What forum would be best for me to join to discuss how to rewrite the
book for FP?


Anthony


On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 12:35 -0500, Anthony W. Henry wrote:
> I recently responded to a question on the community board
> asking about an fpc book by recommending a Turbo Pascal
> book by Jeff Duntemann.  His book started me out as a Pascal
> programmer in 1989 and I still find these old books useful from
> time to time.  
> 
>    I have two by him:
>         Turbo Pascal from Square One 
>         The Complete Borland Pascal
> 
>   Mr. Duntemann has also written other programming books and
> was employed by Borland for a while as a technical writer.  I have
> found his books to be the best available for learning Pascal.  
> 
>   When I responded to the board question it started a train of 
> thought that resulted me in contacting Mr. Duntemann about writing
> a book on FPC.   To my (pleased) surprise I found him provisionally
> enthusiastic for the project.(He hasn't made his mind up yet). 
> 
> He has the following questions for the community. 
>                 POSTED WITH HIS PERMISSION.
>                 
>                 1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?
>                 
>                 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e.,
>                 "terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is
>                 there a better way?
>                 
>                 3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32
>                 apps?
>                 
>                 4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?
>                 
>                 These are important questions, because I want to bring
>                 newcomers up to speed with the tools and OSes they're
>                 most likely to use as they get better.
>                 
>                 I will probably release the rewritten book as a free
>                 ebook, and offer printed copies of the book through
>                 Lulu.com, where I publish a number of other things now.
>                 See:
>                 
>                 http://www.lulu.com/copperwood
>                 
>                 I don't expect to make much money on the project; I made
>                 my money on the book back in 1993 when it was first run.
>                 I love Pascal and would like to see my book still
>                 available to Pascal people.
> 
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