<div>Thanks to all for your replies.</div><div><br></div><div>Many of you including Michael and Reimar mention that Pascal is unfairly viewed in a poor light by people using other languages.</div><div>I know for a fact that some deride the use of begin..end in compound statements as though this makes the language verbose.</div>
<div>If that's what makes Pascal inferior then I think that's superficial as surely every language needs some demarcator of a compound </div><div>statement.</div><div><br></div><div>@Hans-Peter, maybe my son will one day be a great programmer but as for me making a "game-makers library for Lazarus", I wouldn't</div>
<div>know where to start! </div><div><br></div><div>@Michael you say you use it in your day job, I have used vb6 as a front end for a database application with an access database as the back end</div><div> I guess Lazarus would be very easily up to that task.</div>
<div><br></div><div>@Mark I would definitely view in-house projects at work as using Lazarus in the day job</div><div><br></div><div>@Peter</div><div> I never heard of Nassi/Schniderman charts before. I just googled it and found some info, I'm afraid I tend to design as I code and promise myself</div>
<div> to come back and make it all nice later (a promise rarely kept). I know it's the wrong way to do it but I find that in a lot of problems ideas only come to me as I code.</div><div>It's like a journey where at each stage you know where to go next but if someone asked you how exactly to get there at the start you couldn't tell them.</div>
<div>but then maybe my inability to plan ahead is down to never forcing myself to learn to. Maybe I should explore Nassi/Schniderman charts a little.</div><div><br></div><div>> I tried and failed to</div><div>>convince the bosses at work to port their Pascal and ADA code to Delphi.</div>
<div>>Delphi was not popular enough. They chose to rewrite a lot in MS C/C++</div><div>>because that was a Micro$oft product and was officially supported by</div><div>>Micro$oft.</div><div><br></div><div>From what I read on the web a lot of Delphi stuff is now being rewritten in other</div>
<div>languages especially C# which would make you wonder about the future (for</div><div>Delphi at least)</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again for taking the time to answer</div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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