Hi: 2012/10/10 Deon de Wet-Roos <ddewetr...@mweb.co.za>: > Hi > > I'm a chemist in South Africa and I'm trying to start a new line in > programming. I started out with Delphi 4 and being a poor chemist I > thought Lazarus was the answer to my programming needs. I cannot afford to > fork out thousands of Rands for a new programming language and besides > Pascal was the language I grew up with at varsity. Can any of you guru's > advise me what the best option is? I like Delphi and made my first US$ 10 > 000 using Delphi 4. I'd like to continue with Lazarus and pay a donation > for everything I earn using lazarus. However it seems there are many ego's > involved with the development of lazarus and that makes me jittery. If > Lazarus is not the best cross platform programming language then what is? > In South Africa we don't have the luxury of pensions and I'll have to work > until I die. My idea is to develop technical solutions to companies in C++, > Pascal and Matlab but if I cannot count on Lazarus what must I do? > > Deon
Lazarus/Freepascal just works. About the egos, not sure if the first mail is from bully or troll. I think that developers of both Lazarus and Freepascal are nice guys with a cool spirit. Gustavo > > -----Original Message----- > From: Florian Klämpfl [mailto:flor...@freepascal.org] > Sent: 10 October 2012 07:43 PM > To: Lazarus mailing list > Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Please define "delphi compatibility" > > Am 10.10.2012 19:32, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann: >> >> Am 2012-10-10 19:11, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >>>> So the question still holds: What changes would be accepted and which >>>> would be rejected? >>> Does it matter for you? What are you working on? >>> >> The answer is important not only for contributors. >> I am often doubting whether it is worth to stay with Pascal. > > If you are in doubt, then switch. There are enough enviroments fitting > everybody's need so it is not necessary to stay with an enviroment which > does not fit perfectly one's needs. > >> If it is an dead end I would not want to waste any more time on it. > > How is this related to what patches lazarus accepts? There are e.g. Mse > and fpGUI only to name a two other options which follow very different > directions. If this does not fit you, you are indeed wrong in the pascal > world and you have to look somewhere else for other options. > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by Pinpoint, and is > believed to be clean. > > > -- > _______________________________________________ > Lazarus mailing list > Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org > http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus