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Hello:<br>
In barrapunto.com (a Spanish slashdot) there is an article asking "What
do you know about Lazarus?". Most comments were positive, and most
negative comments were against Pascal (it's a dead language etc) more
than against Lazarus.<br>
<br>
Here is the link to the article (in Spanish)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=09/09/28/2211206">http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=09/09/28/2211206</a><br>
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But there were a few comments with objections to Lazarus. One of them
was about debugger. <br>
This comment the (also in Spanish)
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/comments.pl?sid=82108&cid=1176899">http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/comments.pl?sid=82108&cid=1176899</a> <br>
<br>
In this comment he supported Lazarus, but the last paragraphs made some
objections. Here is a translation of the last paragraphs, sorry if my
English is not good enough<br>
<blockquote>"Some problems I find in Lazarus a those that
unfortunatelly can be found in most OSS. On one hand they have amazing
features that can't be found in their commercial counterparts, on the
other hand they lack elemental features that are waiting to be
implemented and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting....<br>
<br>
"Some of the elemental things I miss are: The debugger can't see
properties values of objects (A framework for a OOP without being able
to watch objects in the debuger!, that's an oxymoron) and nested
procedures can't see parent variables. And some bugs never disappear,
or disappear and appear again".<br>
</blockquote>
Well, I don't know what bugs he was talking about, but about the
debugger I think he is right. I would also add a help. Those should be
0 priority: you need to debug and with thousands of objects/functions
you need to access to help very often. Code completion, folding code
etc are wonderful features, but with a good debugger and a good help is
like a car with GPS, four airbags, but with gas tank for two liters.<br>
<br>
Santiago A.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:svaa@ciberpiula.net">svaa@ciberpiula.net</a><br>
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