> Seemed like the logical successor to Turbo Pascal and Free Pascal. To be more accurate, Lazarus is a GUI IDE for Free Pascal, not a successor. The same way E

> Seemed like the logical successor to Turbo Pascal and Free Pascal. To be more accurate, Lazarus is a GUI IDE for Free Pascal, not a successor. The same way Emacs can be an IDE for C that you'll compile with GCC. I know, Delphi effectively replaced Turbo Pascal from the Borland side, even though Delphi could have been "just" an add-on to Turbo. They just didn't take that route.