On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 4:23 AM, LacaK <la...@zoznam.sk> wrote: > >>> the idea) a rewrite of a multi-million lines of code project into C#, >>> rather >>> than move to open source development tools where they can keep the huge >>> code >>> base, the same language and reuse the same development skills. How >>> weird?? >>> Have corporates lost their minds. >> >> I believe that the real problem is to find Object Pascal programmers >> comparing with other languages. >> The companies are thinking in their future. >> >> "Who will maintain this code?" >> "No one are using Object Pascal nowadays". >> >> I hear something like this two times per month. :\ >> >> However, we know the potential of Object Pascal as a language to do >> anything. >> If we have a better marketing, maybe more programmers could have more >> interest to use the language. > > IMO root of problem is in schools. People come to companies from schools and > what they have learned in schools, is what they are expecting in companies > ... > When I walked to school, we learned Pascal, I am suspicious, that this does > not happen nowadays.
Yes. And I think people are thinking in Object Pascal as Turbo Pascal or something like that. I believe most don't know about FPC as a modern compiler. Is so simpler using Object Pascal environment than Java or .NET. So, FPC could be more used by schools. Best, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
