Am Dienstag, den 18.04.2006, 15:27 +0200 schrieb Sasa Zeman: > FPC and Lazarus are currently not sutable as a main tool RAD (at least on > Winodows). If you have Delphi (7) Studio licensed RAD and developing > commercial applications, you have seen real RAD tool in action:
That depends on the environment and purpose. Disadvantages of Delphi: 1. You neither know nor can influence the companies policies. 2. It's closed source, if it's buggy you're lost. 3. Insecure future! > Advantage of FPC and Lazarus: > > 1. Daily updates and upgrades > 2. Cross platform support > 3. Code optimization for targeted processor (main delphi disadvantage on > Intel compatible processors) > 4. Easier (C like) pointer manipulation > 5. C like operators support 6. Runs on machines with relatively low memory, compared to D7 (e.g. 256MB for development, 64MB on target here) 7. Saves you a huge amount of licence costs. 8. Has a mailing lists with a lot of funny people to talk to. SCNR, Marc -- Hey you, go back to work! _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal