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

[tazio mirandola]

i'm a delphi programmer and a FP beginner, it completly lacks good
books focusing on FP and LCL, the book i'm looking for:

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

mostly windows, but linux and osx are important too, crossplatform
tricks are welcome.
consider FP being cross platform is a main advantage over delphi and .net

>
>                 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e.,
>                 "terminal" or text-mode) apps?

writeln is enough for simple personal tools, but in 2008 is hard to
sell a text-mode app, so this is not the killer library nowadays while
internet and database lib are more important for modern real projects

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

absolutely yes, the vision behind lazarus is to replace Delphi

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

absolutely yes, patterns and algorithms are interesting too.

a question about the odience:
should this book be for totally beginners or for (somehow) experienced
programmers coming from others environments?