[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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