<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><div>---- On Thu, 13 Oct 2016 18:13:58 -0400<b>Erwin van den Bosch via Lazarus <lazarus@lists.lazarus-ide.org></b> wrote ----<br></div><div class="zmail_extra"><div><br></div><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #cccccc; padding-left: 6px; margin:0 0 0 5px"><div><div><div>Although I use Free Pascal/Lazarus a lot (because we have a lot of existing pascal code) I think C++ and some GUI framework like QT might be a better option. C/C++ is the number one used programming language. C/C++ code is much more portable to other systems. There are more compilers. QT has a very nice IDE (QT Creator) and is available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Nobody is using Pascal these days. So why learn it? <br></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Learn Object Pascal early instead of C/C++ because it is simpler and better designed. It therefore allows the students to focus on the content of what they are building and not the extraneous details/dangers of the language. This is why Pascal was the standard language for advanced placement courses for several decades before the academic establishment gave in to market forces.<br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>