That's a partial truth, it takes the same time to create basic screens/dialogs using FoxPro or data aware components with Lazarus, but the level of customization and flexibility you can reach using Lazarus is way ahead of FoxPro.
Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Mon, 12/1/08, Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Starting out with Free Pascal > To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> > Date: Monday, December 1, 2008, 2:24 AM > Bill writes: > > > I'm absolutely new to this list... and to Pascal. > I was getting pretty good with Foxpro programming when MS > bought and then changed the > > Although I have not tried Lazarus, I am not sure it will > compare to what you had in Foxpro. My impression is that > Foxpro was higher level and you could do more with fewer > lines of code than what you will do with Lazarus+libs. > > Are you writing user facing type of apps or backed database > work? > _______________________________________________ > 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