Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a long-time reader of Linux Journal. Once, a long time ago,
> an offer of mine to write about Free Pascal in Linux Journal was
> turned down (actually, shunted to Linux gazette).
>
> I was therefore quite shocked when I discovered that in the latest
> issue of Linux Journal, Gambas is covered. Gambas is a Visual Basic
> clone for Linux. As a loyal Delphi and Lazarus user/developer,
> I was duly insulted by the blatant ignoring of Lazarus :-)
>
> The article covers creation of a small bugtracker (2 tables).
> The same application can be coded in Lazarus without a single
> line of code (!).
> Ok, maybe at most 3 lines: 1 to open the database, 1 to close it,
> and one to close the application :-)
>
> If there are other Lazarus users reading Linux Journal, I suggest
> they strongly protest and demand a review of Lazarus in Linux Journal!
PR noise isn't this projects problem, it's its name.
I heard of lazarus for a long time, but never really considered it to be
serious.
A name change would probably do a lot of good to this project.
Thanks!
--
Al
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