[fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

[Sven Barth]

Am 15.11.2024 um 15:23 schrieb Steve Litt via fpc-pascal:
> Second, fpc is neither fish nor fowl: It has way too much "stuff" to be
> an easy to learn or use language, but that "stuff" isn't useful to most
> non-Lazarus users. The solution to this problem is to publicize the
> hell out of the -M tp mode, which brings it back to Turbo Pascal 5.5,
> and then publicize it as a quick way to program relatively safely. It's
> quicker and easier to develop than C (or that horrid C++) and it's
> certainly safer than C or C++. Hammer these things home.

We will *not* advertise a legacy mode for new development. The main 
purpose is FPC is to be an Object Pascal compiler, meaning the Object 
Pascal dialect introduced by Delphi and thus either modes ObjFPC or mode 
Delphi. The others are nice to haves, just like support for the two ISO 
standards that essentially no-one uses.

> Look at the posts on fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org . 90% of them are
> of no use whatsoever to somebody wanting an easier and safer C. It
> seems to me to be a discussion of a neverendingly growing set of arcane
> library functions for edge case usage. The solution would be a
> fpc-basics at lists.freepascal.org , and publicize the hell out of it.
> Seriously, the Pascal stuff discussed fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
> is every bit as complicated as Ada, but without the extreme safety of
> Ada. Make and publicize fpc-basics at lists.freepascal.org .

Users already don't graps the difference between the fpc-pascal and 
fpc-devel lists. No need to provide yet another separation.

Regards,
Sven