Well, I guess the term "Delphi users" is a little broad, but it seems that every post that mentions Lazarus on borland.public.delphi.non-technical gets BLASTED by Delphi fanboys. I mean, it's really amazing to see the outright hostility towards a free software package that might very well save Pascal as a language in the future (since it sure seems that CodeGear and Borland are heading down the drain pretty fast these days). Some of these guys even start entire threads with subjects like "Quit talking about Lazarus here" or "If you think you need cross-platform you don't need Delphi" or some other nonsense. Why do they hate Lazarus so much??
As a (former) Delphi user, I just can't understand this. Delphi 7 was the last version I purchased -- which was some 6 or 7 years ago -- and I refused to purchase a newer version because they refused to fix a very serious bug in D7* (here's a link to one of my complaints about it on the newsgroup, where I describe it in more detail than I care to here: http://tinyurl.com/2ws5gw ). Of course, they *claimed* it was fixed -- in fact, the QS bug listing showed it as closed and fixed because it was fixed in D8. Well it may have been fixed in D8, but I didn't buy D8, I bought D7. They really expected us to pay for an upgrade to get this bug-fix! That was the last straw for me, and I swore I'd never purchase another Delphi product. Anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that I see Lazarus as "salvation" for the Delphi community, not something to be reviled and hated. So what if it's not as polished as Delphi! At least the FPC and Lazarus teams respond to bug reports!! And if it's something I really need fixed, I can always do it myself because it's open source. I just hope the Lazarus community isn't discouraged by those negative comments. -- John [*] It was actually two bugs. The main one was integer math optimization. But when they fixed that bug they broke Cardinal multiplication. So I had a choice, to use optimized integer math and making sure I didn't use any Cardinals, or not worry about the Cardinals and stick with un-optimized integer math. In my opinion, this was completely unacceptable, since I was developing a simulation package that made heavy use of both Cardinals and integer math, and it needed to be optimized. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
