You couldn't make this up. Is it a joke or not?
Department of Basic Education bans Free and Open Source Software in SA
Schools and mandates programming an ancient, moribund language in
contradiction of government's own policy http://twitter.com/share
Assuming that TPageControl remains the preferred way to organise a
tabbed notebook, I'm left with porting some older code and also trying
to tune something I'm currently working on. I'm trying to stick to
Lazarus 1.0, since particularly if I publish a program as being of use
to non-Lazarus
Nice!
There was something similar 1-2 years ago in Great Britain, where education
commission recognized pascal languages (Delphi) as the best for education.
So the next generation of good developers will come from South Africa.
The Department of Education will purchase Delphi and students (and
Debate on here, if anyone's interested in contributing:
http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/565779-Delphi-and-MS-Office-forced-on-South-African-schools/page4
On 11 October 2013 21:18, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote:
You couldn't make this up. Is it a joke or not?
Department of
Well at least they are mandating Delphi.
Could be worse, could be Visual Basic...
On 10/11/2013 09:18 PM, vfclists . wrote:
You couldn't make this up. Is it a joke or not?
Department of Basic Education bans Free and Open Source Software in SA
Schools and mandates programming an ancient,
On 10/11/2013 10:18 PM, vfclists . wrote:
You couldn't make this up. Is it a joke or not?
Department of Basic Education bans Free and Open Source Software in SA
Schools and mandates programming an ancient, moribund language in
contradiction of government's own policy http://twitter.com/share
I suspect is its a trick to introduce Linux by the back door. If their
Delphi programs can easily be switched to Lazarus the software will be easy
to convert to Linux and the Mac
On 11 October 2013 20:18, vfclists . vfcli...@gmail.com wrote:
You couldn't make this up. Is it a joke or not?
3-4 comments to help promoting Lazarus/Free Pascal to them. Mind to help as
well, guys?
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