Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-21 Thread Skybuck Flying
I would like to bring to your attention this project: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=365095 DWPL... it was quite impressive... it had a text gui which was compatible with Delphi... not sure if it's still compatible with Delphi 2007... probably not... maybe it has the same issu

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-19 Thread Andrew Brunner
I think all efforts should the concentrated on providing mainstream features that are common in newer development platforms (Java/C#) . I feel that spending time on making Delphi code more readable is a waste since there are SO many other issues that need to be dealt with. C# has a lot of ideas F

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-19 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op donderdag 18-12-2008 om 18:47 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Skybuck Flying: > - Original Message - > From: "Florian Klaempfl" > To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" > Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:10 PM > Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Free

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-19 Thread Gerard N/A
Hi, On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Skybuck Flying wrote: > > I tried compiling the free pascal compiler in Delphi and noticed how free > pascal had some language features which were not supported by Delphi, which > scares me a bit... I would like to have the ability to go back and forth > betwe

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-19 Thread Skybuck Flying
- Original Message - From: "Florian Klaempfl" To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2008 12:10 PM Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi. Skybuck Flying schrieb: Hello, To make it easy for Delphi pro

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Jonas Maebe
On 18 Dec 2008, at 14:07, Frank de Groot (Rent-a-Geek) wrote: Free Pascal compiler can do 64 bit but no performance benefits so far ?! There were never supposed to be any. 64-bit code can, in some specialist cases, be made to execute in about double the speed of 32-bit code due to the wi

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Frank de Groot (Rent-a-Geek)
Free Pascal compiler can do 64 bit but no performance benefits so far ?! There were never supposed to be any. 64-bit code can, in some specialist cases, be made to execute in about double the speed of 32-bit code due to the wider registers. The availability of more registers is another speed

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 01:18:09AM +0100, Skybuck Flying wrote: > To make it easy for Delphi programmers to write code in Delphi and then > switch to free pascal/lazarus the following could be done: > > 1. Export code from Free Pascal into Delphi packages so they can be > installed in Delphi. >

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Skybuck Flying schrieb: > Hello, > > To make it easy for Delphi programmers to write code in Delphi and then > switch to free pascal/lazarus the following could be done: > > > Delphi's IDE is still more stable than Lazarus IDE. Why should I/we spent time into improving other people's software (

Re: [fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Frank de Groot (Rent-a-Geek)
"Free Pascal compiler can do 64 bit but no performance benefits so far ?!" I am developing a GA (genetical algorithm) that needs a large amount of data to work with. My development machine has 64 GB RAM and 4 cores. In that space, I can run simultaneously 4 processes that each use 16 GB of da

[fpc-pascal] FreePascal/Lazarus plug-in's for Delphi.

2008-12-18 Thread Skybuck Flying
Hello, To make it easy for Delphi programmers to write code in Delphi and then switch to free pascal/lazarus the following could be done: 1. Export code from Free Pascal into Delphi packages so they can be installed in Delphi. 2. Export code from Lazarus into Delphi packages so they can be in