I missed one. Mr. Duntemann closed with this question: What forum would be best for me to join to discuss how to rewrite the book for FP?
Anthony On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 12:35 -0500, Anthony W. Henry wrote: > I recently responded to a question on the community board > asking about an fpc book by recommending a Turbo Pascal > book by Jeff Duntemann. His book started me out as a Pascal > programmer in 1989 and I still find these old books useful from > time to time. > > I have two by him: > Turbo Pascal from Square One > The Complete Borland Pascal > > Mr. Duntemann has also written other programming books and > was employed by Borland for a while as a technical writer. I have > found his books to be the best available for learning Pascal. > > When I responded to the board question it started a train of > thought that resulted me in contacting Mr. Duntemann about writing > a book on FPC. To my (pleased) surprise I found him provisionally > enthusiastic for the project.(He hasn't made his mind up yet). > > He has the following questions for the community. > POSTED WITH HIS PERMISSION. > > 1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux? > > 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e., > "terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is > there a better way? > > 3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32 > apps? > > 4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects? > > These are important questions, because I want to bring > newcomers up to speed with the tools and OSes they're > most likely to use as they get better. > > I will probably release the rewritten book as a free > ebook, and offer printed copies of the book through > Lulu.com, where I publish a number of other things now. > See: > > http://www.lulu.com/copperwood > > I don't expect to make much money on the project; I made > my money on the book back in 1993 when it was first run. > I love Pascal and would like to see my book still > available to Pascal people. > > _______________________________________________ > 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
