On 5/1/06, Henrique de Paula Faria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FPC and Lazarus are not different. BTW they´re better because are plataform
independent.
Better then what?
On their website I see they only have it available for windows x86,
linux x86 and Macintosh PowerPC.
Lazarus has a few more:
Here on Turkey, Visual Basic and Delphi were both most used languages by relatively elder organizations. New ones now chooses between Java and .NET (yet Delphi .NET not even considered, just MS Visual Studio)
On the other hand in universities pascal considered as old, incapable and dead languag
On 4/30/06, Florian Klaempfl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I think Pascal/Delphi whatever is always stronger in Europe.
On Brasil Delphi is very popular. I would say it is almost as popular as Java.
It could be much more popular, but Borland's bad decisions / marketing
and etc is hurting it. Spec
> So guess what. If they don't even know what Delphi is they are not going
> to move to use FPC/Lazarus. It is a very tough sell here in the US.
You just - unwillingly, I assume - provided a good reason to relocate
the new Borland 'DevCo' to a place outside the US, considering their
flagship ha
Michael A. Hess wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, George Lober wrote:
>
>>> 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly
>>
>> This fact baffles me. Why isn't there more participation in development
>> from North America ? Surely the appeal of Pascal isn't limited to
>> cultural or national borders. I
On 4/30/06, Micha Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
"Michael A. Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any
> school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will
> tell you
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:59:50 -0400 (EDT)
"Michael A. Hess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any
> school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will
> tell you that, "Pascal is a dead and useless language. Nobody use
> I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any
> school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will
> tell you that, "Pascal is a dead and useless language. Nobody uses Pascal
> anymore".
This was almost the exact quotation I heard from people on a loc
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, George Lober wrote:
> > 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly
>
>
> This fact baffles me. Why isn't there more participation in development
> from North America ? Surely the appeal of Pascal isn't limited to
> cultural or national borders. Is it lack of interest for Pas
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, m2 wrote:
> Michael Van Canneyt a écrit :
> >
> > Assuming that we are actually infringing on any patents (which I don't
> > believe):
>
> It perfectly sums up the problem : you don't believe.
I am a notorious atheist and sceptic here in my little corner
of the world :-)
Michael Van Canneyt a écrit :
Assuming that we are actually infringing on any patents (which I don't believe):
It perfectly sums up the problem : you don't believe. But you cannot
know. The only way to know whether a software is infringing a
patent is to publish this software and to wait for t
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> >
> > No problem. Some remarks:
> >
> > 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> > are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
> >
> > 2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC
>
> No problem. Some remarks:
>
> 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
>
> 2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC are
> actually enlarging their user-base instead of making it s
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On 4/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.
> FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> > are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
>
> A more clear example: I will help the One
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> > are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
> >
> > 2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC are
> > actually enlarging their user-bas
On Friday 28 April 2006 17:43, George Lober wrote:
> This fact baffles me. Why isn't there more participation in development
> from North America ?
What a loaded question. I think I know why. It has nothing to do with
Pascal.
John
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On 4/28/06, L505 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
While lazarus looks like plagiarism, MSEGUI looks like creativity.
Almost all softwares are plagiarism. To start with all GNU projects
are a plagiarism of some kind. GNU is plagiarism of UNIX. GCC from
other compilers.
KDE is a plagiarism from Window
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
But they are enforced here when the patent holder asks the PTO to do so.
2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a question for the Lazarus/FPC community,
that I got from a another thread in the mailing list
(Lazarus Foundation).
Does someones knows if there's a potential problem with Lazarus
or FPC due to patents ?
B
> I am exitating to use Lazarus, because Borland may sue OLPC on patent
> infringment due to VCL patents. And remeber that OLPC is on the United
> States.
>
> Is this possibility a reality?
>
> My second alternative (and a more likely one) is to use Free Pascal
> with pure GTK+
What about MSEGU
On 4/28/06, Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 1.
FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
A more clear example: I will help the One Laptop Per Child Foundation
develop one of their softwares.
I am e
> No problem. Some remarks:
>
> 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly, and software patents
> are not enforced in Europe. They have no clear legal status here.
>
> 2. They would be shooting in their own foot, because FPC/GPC are
> actually enlarging their user-base instead of making it small
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a question for the Lazarus/FPC community,
that I got from a another thread in the mailing list
(Lazarus Foundation).
Does someones knows if there's a potential problem with Lazarus
or FPC due to patents ?
Bo
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have a question for the Lazarus/FPC community,
that I got from a another thread in the mailing list
(Lazarus Foundation).
Does someones knows if there's a potential problem with Lazarus
or FPC due to patents ?
Borland, usuallys has an open
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