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Lazarus 1.8.2 released: cross-platform GUI builder and IDE for Pascal
- Multicomp 9y agoI am pretty pleased to see this product get updates because A) I'm trying to learn Pascal and it is gratifying that I'm not wasting my time on a dead or treading water project and B) it turns out non-trendy programming languages like Pascal/Perl/VFP still tick along getting used by various programmers, both spaghetti-coders and programming masters.
- mydev1 9y agopascal is a great language. too bad its not popular
- jenkstom 9y agoI'm glad to see this is moving along. Turbo Pascal was my first "real" programming language (I can't bring myself to consider GWBASIC/QuickBasic to be "real", although that's silly when I write it out...). I spent decades as a Delphi programmer and I still miss it. It's great to see that it's an option for hobbyists.
- kwhitefoot 9y agoLike many people here I used Turbo Pascal extensively from version 2 up to version 5 for windows. Had to switch to VB Classic unfortunately because that's what the company decided to use. I tried Lazarus/FPC recently to do some programming exercises and was pleased to see that I could still remember enough to get started but I didn't pursue it very far due to lack of time. Does anyone know of any document that sets out a good argument for picking it up again, for using valuable time on it? For instance: why should I use FPC instead of Python, Bash, C, etc.