Sory for top posting, I am using a phone... 1. There is nothing wrong with "Free" in the name. Many open-source apps have that. Business people trust their wallets. And here, a lot more trust Linux and Open apps. If you know how to present that.
2. I don't know what is wrong on your side, but my side, I did few lightweight applications on linux (including console tcpd services with mysql database background and serial communication) which are working just fine. 3. Maybe this is not the idea. It is so powerfull on console type applications for now. And there are still many console apps needs with networking and database support. And when you can do that freely, fast and on an open OS, this is great. 4. This name made me download (and this old reminders :)) 5. Who needs Windows? :)) By me, FPC is fine and I am still using this as a good alternative writing programs to use my own developped hardware, with database and communication support. So, keep it on. Best regards, Mihai Well there are some things ofcourse wrong with Free Pascal: 1. First the name: "Free" Bussiness people don't believe in "Free". 2. Free Pascal Quality itself: When I see simple things not working like: Read or Readln or whatever, I run away screaming from Free Pascal ;) :) 3. It doesn't have an advanced development environment like Visual Studio 2005 or Delphi 7 / Delphi 2007 (last one sucky though) I have seen onde IDE Lazareus or something like that and it's a clone of Delphi 7 but it doesn't have the quality yet :) 4. Pascal sounds oooooldddddddddd and reminds people of the 16 bit dos/days. Yak ! Full of frustration, limitations, and code going into the waste basket ;) :) 5. Special features for Free Pascal, what does it offer that the other tools do not ? I know free pascal can cross compile but for now I only need to compile for Windows 32 bit and maybe Windows 64 bit in the future ;) What features does free pascal offer for Win32 or Win64 development which other environments do not ? It has to stand out to attract developers ;) That's my thoughts on it ;) Bye, Skybuck. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
