On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 5:35 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys <mailingli...@geldenhuys.co.uk> wrote: > On 2017-11-29 23:37, Marcos Douglas B. Santos wrote: > >> "No one are using Object Pascal nowadays". > > > It seems there is still pretty good interest in Object Pascal in Brazil. We > have a 21 year old that just got hired, and he studied Object Pascal in > Brazil. I found such a "young age Object Pascal developer" rather > surprising, because everybody else I've met that does Delphi/Object Pascal > coding has been much older. The 90's generation that grew up. :)
Yes, there is still pretty good interest in Object Pascal in Brazil — I have been writing in a blog[1] for 2 years and it still growing — but it's not like it used to be in Delphi 5~7 many years ago. >> I hear something like this two times per month. :\ > > We have a recruitment agent that sends any Object Pascal developer he finds > to us - if we are actively looking or not. If they are skilled, we find a > role for them - and that keeps our dev teams topped up. Very good. >> If we have a better marketing, maybe more programmers could have more >> interest to use the language. > > Yeah, if the FPC Foundation could help with marketing the language and FPC > (and Lazarus), that would be a great step in the right direction. I agree. Best regards, Marcos Douglas [1] https://goo.gl/ROmyBb _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
