There are some things that Lazarus/Free Pascal does right: - It has the most sane strings you'll ever see, you don't have to allocate them, and they can hold g

There are some things that Lazarus/Free Pascal does right: - It has the most sane strings you'll ever see, you don't have to allocate them, and they can hold gigabytes of text. - You'll never confuse equality tests = with assignment := - It's case insensitive - It doesn't do macros - It is one of the fastest compilers available - It is one of the best GUI builders available Things it doesn't do right - Begin/End seems verbose to some people - Other "standard" pascal systems gave it a bad name - Historically, Borland et al, priced people out of their products and killed off a loyal use base.