[fpc-pascal] Who said Pascal isn't popular

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

2009/10/12 Rainer Stratmann <RainerStratmann at t-online.de>:
> Am Montag, 12. Oktober 2009 11:02 schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
>> > Remember, Pascal is merely a TEACHING language, unsuitable for commercial
>> > software development, which is why we have C.  :)
>>
>> And why should that be the case? What are the outstanding feature of C
>> that make it so supperiour? It's illogical and hard to maintain syntax?
>> Or is it just that it was available for free on all unix systems?
>
> Yes, it is available everywhere.
> And it is easier to copy unix code then.
>
> Remember that it is still not easy to come to freepascal.
> You have to configure a debian testing system and apt-get lazarus and so on...
> Nearly nowhere the lazarus package is preinstalled.

You don't need Debian Testing. My system is Debian Stable (i386) since
2001/2002. Never have had a serious problem installing
Lazarus/Freepascal.

Gustavo