Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread waldo kitty
On 2/18/2013 02:40, Florian Klämpfl wrote: waldo kitty schrieb: On 2/17/2013 14:35, Florian Klämpfl wrote: Am 17.02.2013 20:31, schrieb Frank Church: One more thing lest I forget. The official FPC documentation is very good, especially for documents created by volunteers and hobbyists. Tha

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling arm-embedded fpc

2013-02-18 Thread Koenraad Lelong
Op 18-02-13 16:22, Michael Ring schreef: My guess is that you use an old version of ppcrossarm: Looking at your error message ppcrossarm is located in: /usr/bin/ppcrossarm which is a quite unusual place for it when you install it from trunk. Michael Hi Micheal, I don't think it's that. I st

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Frank Church
On 18 February 2013 11:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: > On 2013-02-17 13:40, Frank Church wrote: >> >> My beef is mostly with Lazarus developers. They are more at fault here >> as a lot of the new features which make a good difference to >> productivity tend go unannounced or unnoticed. > > That's w

Re: [fpc-pascal] Re: Fpc Access Violation if AppConfigDir doesn't exist.

2013-02-18 Thread DaWorm
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 8:02 AM, Lukasz Sokol wrote: > > Maybe he one and true answer for all of the above would be to have: > > try vs try > try except > try finally > except except > end;end; > final

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Mon, February 18, 2013 01:40, Rainer Stratmann wrote: > Am Sunday 17 February 2013 18:45:50 schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >> Am 17.02.2013 18:10, schrieb ik: >> > Nice, Pascal is at the same level of usage and exposure as gcc, Linux >> > kernel and llvm, >> >> And you think some fancy webpage filled

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling arm-embedded fpc

2013-02-18 Thread Michael Ring
My guess is that you use an old version of ppcrossarm: Looking at your error message ppcrossarm is located in: /usr/bin/ppcrossarm which is a quite unusual place for it when you install it from trunk. Michael Am 18.02.13 14:16, schrieb Koenraad Lelong: On 17-02-13 20:27, Michael Ring wrote:

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 18.02.2013 12:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-02-17 13:40, Frank Church wrote: My beef is mostly with Lazarus developers. They are more at fault here as a lot of the new features which make a good difference to productivity tend go unannounced or unnoticed. That's w

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Frank Church
On 17 February 2013 13:54, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: > Frank Church wrote: > >>> And sometimes, having a high-profile blogger pushing one particular >>> product >>> can be counterproductive since he ends up a figure of fun. >> >> >> Would the said high-profile blogger be Zarko of delphi.about.com,

Re: [fpc-pascal] Compiling arm-embedded fpc

2013-02-18 Thread Koenraad Lelong
On 17-02-13 20:27, Michael Ring wrote: I did a quick check on Mac & Linux, on both platforms compiling & loading resulting .elf file into gdb works fine. Thank you very much, Michael Hi, I'm very confused. I must be doing something wrong, but I can't find out what. I tried this on a "virgi

[fpc-pascal] Re: Fpc Access Violation if AppConfigDir doesn't exist.

2013-02-18 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 14/02/2013 13:58, Giuliano Colla wrote: > It depends on what one tries to do in the try.. clause, on which > errors one choses to deal with on the except clause, and the > likelihood of recoverable errors in the finally clause. Allowing both > constructs, (try..except..finally and try..finally..

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Sven Barth
On 18.02.2013 12:19, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2013-02-17 13:40, Frank Church wrote: My beef is mostly with Lazarus developers. They are more at fault here as a lot of the new features which make a good difference to productivity tend go unannounced or unnoticed. That's why I created the fo

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2013-02-17 13:40, Frank Church wrote: > > My beef is mostly with Lazarus developers. They are more at fault here > as a lot of the new features which make a good difference to > productivity tend go unannounced or unnoticed. That's why I created the following wiki page... for exactly that reas

[fpc-pascal] Re: OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 17-2-2013 14:52, Sven Barth wrote: > On 17.02.2013 14:40, Frank Church wrote: >> On 17 February 2013 09:35, Florian Klämpfl >> wrote: >>> Am 17.02.2013 09:55, schrieb ik: On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Florian Klämpfl >>> >

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread Sven Barth
Am 18.02.2013 08:32 schrieb "ik" : > > > > > > Google and Sun are multibillion dollar corporations. Their owners > > Sorry but that is bullshit. I'm a freelancer, works alone, with > minimal budget, yet I find the time to write specifications for my > clients, documentation, emails, explaining thin

Re: [fpc-pascal] OT a bit - Planet Object Pascal

2013-02-18 Thread ik
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 3:54 AM, waldo kitty wrote: > On 2/17/2013 19:40, Rainer Stratmann wrote: >> >> Am Sunday 17 February 2013 18:45:50 schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >>> >>> Am 17.02.2013 18:10, schrieb ik: Nice, Pascal is at the same level of usage and exposure as gcc, Linux kernel