[Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread vfclists .
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

[Lazarus] Inserting new pages into a TPageControl

2013-10-11 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
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

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread Dmitry Boyarintsev
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

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread Dave Coventry
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

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread Benito van der Zander
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,

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
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

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread vfclists .
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?

Re: [Lazarus] Graeme would love this, or not, I think

2013-10-11 Thread leledumbo
3-4 comments to help promoting Lazarus/Free Pascal to them. Mind to help as well, guys? -- View this message in context: http://free-pascal-lazarus.989080.n3.nabble.com/Lazarus-Graeme-would-love-this-or-not-I-think-tp4033781p4033788.html Sent from the Free Pascal - Lazarus mailing list archive