> > I don't think the GNU C compiler is popular because of one nice > > website. I think the > > reason GNU C compiler is successful is because of all the fan boys > > I'm quite sure it's mainly successful because it's the default (and > often only) C compiler on Linux systems, as well as ported to pretty > much every other system out there. > > > Jonas
I agree.. Actually, then, I should more so compare FPC to something like python or perl rather than GCC. Because GCC was available years ago when FPC was not. Whereas perl an python are newer. I think *part* of the reason perl is popular is because of all the websites out there saying "perl is so great because I did this and that with it". Of course there is a problem comparing a compiler with a scripting language, since scripting languages are used more for sysadmin. But what I'm getting at with my "fanboy" point, is that a lot of the FPC users are very quiet people and do not have as big of a mouth as they should. A lot of perl and python programmers do have big mouths and speak up about their language. But still, Pascal has it good - there are way more Delphi/freepascal projects than there are Smalltalk ones, for example. Regards. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel