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

michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be
Mon Feb 27 13:30:10 CET 2012



On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote:

> Op 27 februari 2012 13:18 heeft  <michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be> het
> volgende geschreven:
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Vincent Snijders wrote:
>>
>>> Op 27 februari 2012 12:45 heeft Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
>>> <felipemonteiro.carvalho at gmail.com> het volgende geschreven:
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I think Vincent is asking where you got the numbers you quoted.  Or did
>>>>> you
>>>>> just make them up?  I.e. "citation needed".
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I invented the numbers. But if anyone thinks they are not realistic,
>>>> just get the download numbers for FPC and Lazarus, compare with other
>>>> competing projects, and prove me wrong.
>>>
>>>
>>> On debian, it is not so popular compared with gpc:
>
> With 'not *so* popular' I meant having 95 or 99% of the market share.

Ehm, market share of what ? Pascal compilers ? 
In that case, it's FPC 74 % versus gpc 26 %, which I think is not so bad ?

Of course, total world domination is still far off ;-)

Michael.


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