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

[DONALD PEDDER]

    Coming out of lurk mode...

> 1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?

    Well, speaking just for myself, :-) I'm still using DR-DOS (I have 
Windows as well, but not by choice. Grrr - the punitive measures in the 
anti-trust case didn't go far enough! I don't buy software unless I have 
no choice. e.g. I have written my own programs for budgetting, stats, 
etc.). Eventually I want to make some of my programs multi-platform, but 
it would still be command-line based rather than windows based (graphics 
just slows everything up, so unless needed... "a picture is worth a 
thousand words, but it takes 10,000 times the memory").


> 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e., "terminal" or 
> text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is there a better way?

    CRT and strings, and that's about it.


> 3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32 apps?

    Not specifically, but I try to make my DOS programs work in Windows as 
well (not easy, given how much MS crippled their version of DOS - at least 
one program I gave up on keeping it Windows compatible, though in future I 
might make use of some multi-platform system units to help this project. 
Have to face facts that most people use Windows, even if it's a really 
crappy OS :-\ ).


> 4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?

    Nope, but if it was covered in a book I might be more inclined to do 
so.

    It would be good to have a more up-to-date Pascal book (there are 
features in FPC which aren't in my old Pascal books. e.g. OO, strings, 
passing filenames as parameters, etc.) - I'd buy a printed copy (or an 
E-copy I could print).


thanks,
    DONALD.

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