[Lazarus] Some information please

[Salvatore Coppola]

2010/7/3 jjb <realnug at gmail.com>

> I am an interested observer of Lazarus but I know very little about it.
> I am interested partly because Pascal was the first language I ever used
> (it formed a very small part of a non-CS degree.)
> I understand that this is an open source project so I guess that those who
> develop it do so because they love it.
> Are these people users of Lazarus in their day jobs or is Lazarus just a
> hobby that they don't ever expect to use professionally?
> I only found Lazarus by accident it seems to have a much lower profile than
> other open source stuff (eg python, php, java etc).
> Is there a reason for this?
> Where in the world is Lazarus popular/not so popular. I see that there is a
> german language textbook that may be translated to english sometime.
>
> The level of skill in this mail group seems quite high. Do people come to
> Lazarus as already skilled programmers in other
> languages as I don't see many newbies asking simple questions.
> Or is it the case that people here are older on average and cut their teeth
> when Pascal was more popular?
> I guess I'm asking in a roundabout way if this community is growing.
>
> I have read in Delphi discussions many times people talking about how to
> make the language more popular.
> One of the issues always brought up is price. Lazarus doesn't have this
> problem so I wonder
> if price is a factor in Delphi's relative unpopularity.
>
>
simply inheritance of peaples who changed from dos TP to some visual
environment missing Dephi

My thinking is that languages need to get the kids interested and the way to
> do this is game development.
> I believe that C++ is the language of the serious game developers. I also
> believe that object pascal provides
> almost the same power as C++ but without a lot of the pain. Correct me if I
> am wrong as I don't know any of this from experience
> only from reading.
> I recently bought my 9 year old son this book The Game Maker's Apprentice<http://www.amazon.com/Game-Makers-Apprentice-Development-Beginners/dp/1590596153/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278161293&sr=8-1> and
> he is working his way through it at the moment.
> It comes with software enabling users to easily create 2D games with all
> the bells and whistles (lives, health, levels, explosions) and supplies
> lots of resources (images and sounds) for sprites etc. For most of the book
> users learn to create games by instancing built-in objects
> and altering their attributes and behaviour. Only later in the book is
> coding introduced to enable users to extend beyond what's provided.
> I think it's a wonderful but imagine if the language that was introduced
> was object pascal!
>
> I would be grateful for any information.
>
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