Coming out of lurk mode...
1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?
Well, speaking just for myself, :-) I'm still using DR-DOS (I have Windows as well, but not by choice. Grrr - the punitive measures in the anti-trust case didn't go far enough! I don't buy software unless I have no choice. e.g. I have written my own programs for budgetting, stats, etc.). Eventually I want to make some of my programs multi-platform, but it would still be command-line based rather than windows based (graphics just slows everything up, so unless needed... "a picture is worth a thousand words, but it takes 10,000 times the memory").
2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e., "terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is there a better way?
CRT and strings, and that's about it.
3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32 apps?
Not specifically, but I try to make my DOS programs work in Windows as well (not easy, given how much MS crippled their version of DOS - at least one program I gave up on keeping it Windows compatible, though in future I might make use of some multi-platform system units to help this project. Have to face facts that most people use Windows, even if it's a really crappy OS :-\ ).
4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?
Nope, but if it was covered in a book I might be more inclined to do so.
It would be good to have a more up-to-date Pascal book (there are features in FPC which aren't in my old Pascal books. e.g. OO, strings, passing filenames as parameters, etc.) - I'd buy a printed copy (or an E-copy I could print).
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