[Lazarus] BSD Magazine Pascal quote

[Allan E. Registos]

Hello to all, 

(Part of this mail also I posted earlier at the Lazarus forum).

I was skimming the BSD Magazine: FreeBSD Programming Primer.
In page 7 the magazine mentioned about Pascal this way:

Quote:
    BASIC and Pascal are great for learning how to code,
    but they have some limitations....

You can read the whole paragraph from the magazine, a free download, it needs registration.
I have felt that their is something wrong with the statement where Pascal was being paired as limited in the same way with BASIC.  So I decided to write one of the BSD magazine contacts found in the magazine, and said in the mail that the Pascal quote is incorrect and that the name Pascal is too generic and may or may not refer to the Modern Pascal we have now such as FPC. 

I said also that FPC code will run on most OSes and can do web programming and many web frameworks were created for it.

I've got an almost immediate reply and the editor give me thanks and said that if I will be able to write a short review on their next BSD magazine release to tell about the language Pascal, more like a column.  I've felt that I am not the right person to write a review since my experience of using Free Pascal is not adequate. And I believe there are more persons here in the who are more resourceful, so I've mailed him back and said that it would be a great privilege for Lazarus/Free Pascal to be featured in the BSD magazine and said that I am not the right person to write a review, and will let anyone from this (forum) list to do it.

I believe writing a Free Pascal/Lazarus review to be featured in the BSD Magazine is one way of promoting the language in the BSD world. 

If anyone can refer a resource person who is more willing to a write a review of Free Pascal in the BSD magazine, please drop a reply or contact me so that I can forward the email address to the editor.

The magazine's editor also stated that he is going to promote the language and welcome any reviewer.


Thank you very much...
Allan Registos