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Lazarus looks interesting, but what holds me back is that the language doesn't seem to have evolved. I enjoy functional languages much more these days, and I pr

Lazarus looks interesting, but what holds me back is that the language doesn't seem to have evolved. I enjoy functional languages much more these days, and I prefer not to go back to an old language. I would be happy to be proven wrong on this

rpeden 9y ago
The language has evolved, but it still falls squarely in the imperative, OO camp. And besides, you mentioned than you'd prefer to stick with more functional languages. It's hard to prove someone's preference wrong. :) I mostly share your preference, but I make an exception for Pascal. There's just something about it that draws me in, even though I've only used it for fun, and not professionally.
- vram22 9y ago
  Yes, Pascal is a fun language to work in. I've always enjoyed working in it, whether in the form of Turbo Pascal, Delphi or Lazarus (did some commercial work in TP and a bit in Delphi, and Lazarus so far, for fun.) Probably many features (or non-features [1]) of the language contribute to it. This is just one point: the use of sets as built into the languages, is nice and reads naturally for expressing some kinds of relationships and tests (foo in bar, where bar is a set) - e.g. char in vowels, etc. [1] "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes103610.html https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes103610...
- TimJYoung 9y ago
  Just curious: do you use an IDE, and if so, which one ? The thing that drew me in to Object Pascal was getting Delphi back in 1996 (I think it cost $200), and being just amazed at how much I could do out-of-the-box without knowing a thing about Object Pascal. The productivity with IDEs like Delphi/Lazarus is just astounding. I look at setup instructions for many languages today and just cannot believe what I'm reading. Pages and pages of instructions on putting together a dev environment just to compile a Hello World program. It's just insane to me...
  - rpeden 9y ago
    Apologies for the slow reply. I've used Lazarus when I've had small GUI apps I wanted to make. Other times, I'll just use Turbo Pascal in DOSBox when I'm just trying to have some fun and make simple little games.
raphinou 9y ago
Downvotes is the last thing I expected on this comment. I expressed my opinion about what held me back. In what sense does that warrant a downvote?

rpeden 9y ago

The language has evolved, but it still falls squarely in the imperative, OO camp. And besides, you mentioned than you'd prefer to stick with more functional languages. It's hard to prove someone's preference wrong. :) I mostly share your preference, but I make an exception for Pascal. There's just something about it that draws me in, even though I've only used it for fun, and not professionally.

vram22 9y ago
Yes, Pascal is a fun language to work in. I've always enjoyed working in it, whether in the form of Turbo Pascal, Delphi or Lazarus (did some commercial work in TP and a bit in Delphi, and Lazarus so far, for fun.) Probably many features (or non-features [1]) of the language contribute to it. This is just one point: the use of sets as built into the languages, is nice and reads naturally for expressing some kinds of relationships and tests (foo in bar, where bar is a set) - e.g. char in vowels, etc. [1] "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes103610.html https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/antoinedes103610...
TimJYoung 9y ago
Just curious: do you use an IDE, and if so, which one ? The thing that drew me in to Object Pascal was getting Delphi back in 1996 (I think it cost $200), and being just amazed at how much I could do out-of-the-box without knowing a thing about Object Pascal. The productivity with IDEs like Delphi/Lazarus is just astounding. I look at setup instructions for many languages today and just cannot believe what I'm reading. Pages and pages of instructions on putting together a dev environment just to compile a Hello World program. It's just insane to me...
- rpeden 9y ago
  Apologies for the slow reply. I've used Lazarus when I've had small GUI apps I wanted to make. Other times, I'll just use Turbo Pascal in DOSBox when I'm just trying to have some fun and make simple little games.

raphinou 9y ago

Downvotes is the last thing I expected on this comment. I expressed my opinion about what held me back. In what sense does that warrant a downvote?