On Sun, 29 Aug 2021 at 15:26, Bart via fpc-pascal <fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > > So, if you're on Windows, *nix or a Mac, my advice is to use Lazarus > as your IDE of choice.
I see where you are coming from, I think, but I can relate to the OP. I played with Pascal at university, and in my first job -- I wrote a Quicklife program and some fractal generators and things. TurboPascal was a good language, approachable and easy to understand. But Delphi was, to me, utterly impenetrable. It's not really Pascal any more: it's a confusing forms-based 4GL which happens to have a scripting language with Pascal syntax. I am not really interested in writing GUI apps. I'm just an amateur playing around and all the OOPS stuff blew my brain. I'm sure it's good and helpful for professionals, or even for skilled amateurs, but as a dabbler, it took a reasonably accessible language, far more readable than C, and made it overcomplicated and obscure and complex and basically just too damned hard for me. I've got Lazarus running here and it's more of the same. But I discovered that I have `fpc` in the terminal and I had a "Hello world" program running in 30 seconds there... something that took hours in Delphi. Plain old FreePascal is approachable. Object Pascal is deeply intimidating, and I'm not sure it's worth the entry price. -- Liam Proven – Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk – gMail/gTalk/gHangouts: lpro...@gmail.com Twitter/Facebook/LinkedIn/Flickr: lproven – Skype: liamproven UK: +44 7939-087884 – ČR (+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal): +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org https://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
