He has the following questions for the community.
Since I feel as being part of the community, I'd like to answer. :)
1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?
For me... 80% Linux, 20% Windows, 0% MacOS. But this will change if I got a MacBook, perhaps I'll have 20% usage on this OS. :-D
2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e., "terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is there a better way?
For console app, I used basic CRT unit provided by FPC.
3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32 apps?
I do. I never wrote console app on win32 using fpc, but I wrote some GUI apps on win32 using Lazarus which is powered by fpc. ;)
4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?
Does 'objects' here refer to object oriented programming or refer to TP's style class? If it means OOP, then I do make heavy use of OOP in FPC, especially the FCL. It it means the last, then I no longer touch this object paradigm since I used Delphi. ;)
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.
Hope this would help. :) -Bee- has Bee.ography at: http://beeography.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
