Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 1:02 PM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > [...] > > Don't get me wrong. I've been working with Delphi for over 25 years > > and with FPC for 6 or 7 years. My career is based on Object Pascal. > > So, I too am interested in keeping the language relevant... but

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:43 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > I could see that if it was a compiler for “Pascal” which was defined by > some other group and you could reference them but it isn’t. FPC is a > l

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Marcos Douglas B. Santos via fpc-pascal
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 11:43 AM Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > > > I could see that if it was a compiler for “Pascal” which was defined by > > some other group and you could reference them but it isn’t. FPC is a > > language in its own right and the compiler is the only place that >

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Nov 16, 2024 at 9:46:25 PM, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > You never heard of Delphi, ElevateWeb, Smart Mobile Studio, PascalScript, > OxyGene ? > There are some others, can't recall the name. There is a Russian version, > called abcpascal or som

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Nov 16, 2024 at 7:24:01 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > That said, the Free Pascal website is not about the pascal language. > > It is about the compiler. The GNU compiler or LLVM C compiler also do not > contain code on their website. Not that I would recommend their sites, but > these tool

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Nov 16, 2024 at 7:24:01 PM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: That said, the Free Pascal website is not about the pascal language. It is about the compiler. The GNU compiler or LLVM C compiler also do not contain code on their website. No

Re: [fpc-pascal] Fwd: What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Bart via fpc-pascal
On Sat, Nov 16, 2024 at 8:55 AM Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: > See this is what I don't understand. In the 7 years I used Turbo Pascal > professionally, I don't remember ever having to allocate or free > memory: I just declared variables. This was one of the big advantages > of Turbo Pascal

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Tim Coates via fpc-pascal
Users will judge a website within seconds. And unfortunately that is the nature of the game today. On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, 9:28 pm Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal, < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal < > fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.or

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Karoly Balogh via fpc-pascal
HI, On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal wrote: > By contrast, there is only one Python. There is only one Rust, Ruby > whatnot. Their compiler/interpreters *are* the language, so there it is > logical and suitable to present the language on their site. Actually, there's some

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Michael Van Canneyt via fpc-pascal
On Sat, 16 Nov 2024, Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal wrote: On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you quickly what's the point of the language, and gives you exampl

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal
On Nov 16, 2024 at 3:13:26 PM, Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal < fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org> wrote: > If you know nothing about the language, the main page explains to you > quickly what's the point of the language, and gives you example code, so > you can immediately see how it looks like. T

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Nikolay Nikolov via fpc-pascal
On 11/16/24 9:46 AM, Steve Litt via fpc-pascal wrote: DougC via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:15:13 -0500 I'm tempted to ask if you are seriously asking this. But I won't. Design is a whole professional specialty. To say it boils down to light vs. dark background or the amount of

Re: [fpc-pascal] What to do to get new users

2024-11-16 Thread Steve Litt via fpc-pascal
DougC via fpc-pascal said on Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:15:13 -0500 >I'm tempted to ask if you are seriously asking this. But I won't. > > > >Design is a whole professional specialty. To say it boils down to >light vs. dark background or the amount of whitespace is to insult >those who do this work as a