i'm a delphi programmer and a FP beginner, it completly lacks good books focusing on FP and LCL, the book i'm looking for:
> 1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux? mostly windows, but linux and osx are important too, crossplatform tricks are welcome. consider FP being cross platform is a main advantage over delphi and .net > > 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e., > "terminal" or text-mode) apps? writeln is enough for simple personal tools, but in 2008 is hard to sell a text-mode app, so this is not the killer library nowadays while internet and database lib are more important for modern real projects > 3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32 > apps? absolutely yes, the vision behind lazarus is to replace Delphi > 4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects? absolutely yes, patterns and algorithms are interesting too. a question about the odience: should this book be for totally beginners or for (somehow) experienced programmers coming from others environments? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
