[Lazarus] Lazarus Goal

[Bee Jay]

> This indeed violates that "goal", but please don't evaluate lazarus as
> a complete product.  There is a bug tracker, with very friendly and
> responsive developers, as you have noticed.

That's why I said he's not ready to join an open source project  
_driven_ by community. I never mean to discourage him, but I think one  
who would jump to _native_ cross platfrom programming, s/he had to be  
ready to face the compatibility problem. It's the consequences. Even  
Java can't really solve the problem completely.

>> 'Lazarus and Free Pascal aim to be write once, compile anywhere for  
>> those
>> programs which only use the supported operating system features  
>> that share a
>> common design'.
>
> And I would've thought that this was obvious. There are just some
> things you cannot abstract/emulate.

Exactly. Even those platforms don't have same thought about what is  
"common". What Java does is nothing more than standarized the "common"  
things within its own environment. But, whether it's common to the  
native platform, it's very much questionable. Obviously he can't see  
the obvious.

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