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

Jürgen Hestermann juergen.hestermann at gmx.de
Sat Oct 17 15:05:26 CEST 2009


> A quick study of some language reference docs and a few examples
> should be all you need to get started.

The general rules are easy to learn. But to be productive you also need 
to know about environments (IDE etc.), available libraries and their 
usage (which already differ between Delphi and Lazarus), bugs (and their 
workarounds) and OS dependencies and maybe even need to have lots of own 
code which you can reuse. So only getting the basics of a language is 
not enough IMO. And then it *does* matter whether you are used to 
program in a certain language (on a certain OS) or not.



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