On 25/02/2012 21:51, Frank Church wrote: [...] > You have Delphi to blame here, because somehow Borland's marketing of > Delphi deemphasized the Pascal dimension of Delphi with the effect > that most people don't identify Pascal with Delphi. The terms FPC and > Lazarus don't give any indication that Pascal is the language. > Somehow FPC should some how get itself identified with Pascal in the > mind of people and Lazarus must be identified as the definitive > Pascal IDE at the very least if not in the Windows world very much so > in the Unix/Linux world. Most the languages mentioned above are > strongly identified with Linux and the web and are 'cool' whereas > Pascal are not. Being a language that has to be compiled language is > also a downer > > I had my first lick of (Turbo) Pascal on an ancient 286 (!) some time between 1996-7, on an ancient 286 machine ... C looked extremely complicated then (and when you read a manual for Atari C compiler your hair would stand up and stay there...) and still a pain :)
But I have heard/read opinions of people that think Pascal is a toy language, and they date to way way before Borland :( So to recap - yes Borland probably is to blame but not for the reason you wrote, rather for /not/ trying to reverse the old opinions, but trying to detour around them, badly... L. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
