> Well there are some things ofcourse wrong with Free Pascal: > > 1. First the name: > "Free" > Bussiness people don't believe in "Free".
First you must define a target in business people. Which is easy. First and for all, FPC is interested in business people that have something to offer. And offering a helping hand in developing/improving the project is more important than money here. The kind of business people that don't believe in "Free" are in general not our target in the first place. > 2. Free Pascal Quality itself: > > When I see simple things not working like: > Read or Readln or whatever, I run away screaming from Free Pascal ;) :) I don't get this. > 3. It doesn't have an advanced development environment like Visual Studio > 2005 or Delphi 7 / Delphi 2007 (last one sucky though) > > I have seen onde IDE Lazareus or something like that and it's a clone of > Delphi 7 but it doesn't have the quality yet :) That goes for anything that still must be developed/fixed. > 4. Pascal sounds oooooldddddddddd and reminds people of the 16 bit dos/days. > Yak ! Full of frustration, limitations, and code going into the waste basket > ;) :) But are we responsible for those feelings? Lots of non C users describe C as a overgrown macro assembler, but I don't see C changing its name. Moreover rebranding hurts our image with users that we are already have in a kind of feeble attempt to get users we might never get anyway? > 5. Special features for Free Pascal, what does it offer that the other tools > do not ? That is fairly easy. None of the tools you compare it with above is multiplatform. > I know free pascal can cross compile but for now I only need to compile for > Windows 32 bit and maybe Windows 64 bit in the future ;) > > What features does free pascal offer for Win32 or Win64 development which > other environments do not ? I've seen no Win64 Delphi like. And one can't seriously compare MFC to Delphi. FPC's main goal is portability anyway, not competing with the existing tools on Win32 head on. > It has to stand out to attract developers ;) It already does. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
