[Lazarus] What is the most widely used Pascal on Linux and other Unix variants?

[Henry Vermaak]

On 27/02/12 11:29, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Vincent Snijders
> <vincent.snijders at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> Yes, in Linux FPC should have 99%+ of the Pascal market share. Lazarus
>>> itself also has at least 95%+ of the IDE/framework marketshare.
>>
>> Maybe it should, but what makes you think it has 'in fact'  such a share?
>
> Do you know any other Pascal compiler for Linux which competes
> seriously against FPC? Any big or medium sized project uses that
> compiler?
>
> Kylix is dead. GNU Pascal is almost dead. So there is not much competition left.
>
> An indirect measure: check http://www.ohloh.net/ All top Pascal
> developers for non-Windows projects are using FPC, actually most of
> the top ones are Lazarus developers.
>
> Another indirect measure: All Pascal projects which appeared in the
> Linux Questions Awards were built in FPC. All but 1 FPC projects there
> are build using Lazarus+LCL.
>
> Another indirect measure: Put "pascal compiler linux" in Google. I see
> only mentions of FPC and GNU Pascal (which is almost dead so can
> hardly count).

I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted.  Or did 
you just make them up?  I.e. "citation needed".