[Lazarus] Please define "delphi compatibility"

[Gustavo Enrique Jimenez]

Hi:

2012/10/10 Deon de Wet-Roos <ddewetroos at mweb.co.za>:
> Hi
>
> I'm a chemist in South Africa and I'm trying to start a new line in
> programming.  I started out with Delphi 4 and being  a poor chemist I
> thought Lazarus was the answer to my programming needs.  I cannot afford to
> fork out thousands of Rands for a new programming language and besides
> Pascal was the language I grew up with at varsity.  Can any of you guru's
> advise me what the best option is? I like Delphi and made my first US$ 10
> 000 using Delphi 4.  I'd like to continue with Lazarus and pay a donation
> for everything I earn using lazarus.  However it seems there are many ego's
> involved with the development of lazarus and that makes me jittery.  If
> Lazarus is not the best cross platform programming language then what is?
> In South Africa we don't have the luxury of pensions and I'll have to work
> until I die.  My idea is to develop technical solutions to companies in C++,
> Pascal and Matlab but if I cannot count on Lazarus what must I do?
>
> Deon

Lazarus/Freepascal just works. About the egos, not sure if the first
mail is from bully or troll. I think that developers of both Lazarus
and Freepascal are nice guys with a cool spirit.

Gustavo



>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Klämpfl [mailto:florian at freepascal.org]
> Sent: 10 October 2012 07:43 PM
> To: Lazarus mailing list
> Subject: Re: [Lazarus] Please define "delphi compatibility"
>
> Am 10.10.2012 19:32, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
>>
>> Am 2012-10-10 19:11, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
>>>> So the question still holds: What changes would be accepted and which
>>>> would be rejected?
>>> Does it matter for you? What are you working on?
>>>
>> The answer is important not only for contributors.
>> I am often doubting whether it is worth to stay with Pascal.
>
> If you are in doubt, then switch. There are enough enviroments fitting
> everybody's need so it is not necessary to stay with an enviroment which
> does not fit perfectly one's needs.
>
>> If it is an dead end I would not want to waste any more time on it.
>
> How is this related to what patches lazarus accepts? There are e.g. Mse
> and fpGUI only to name a two other options which follow very different
> directions. If this does not fit you, you are indeed wrong in the pascal
> world and you have to look somewhere else for other options.
>
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