Subj : Active or dead?
To   : Andy Ball
From : mark lewis
Date : Thu Dec 22 2016 07:09:54

21 Dec 16 22:49, you wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 RW>> f you can find a book on Delphi and Borland or Turbo Pascal, you are
 RW>> pretty much most of the way there.

 AB> There are bound to be some differences though,

yes there are some but when using FPC in {$mode delphi}, the API and the 
results are generally the same... the internal methods of getting those results 
is generally different, though...

 AB> not least when it comes to external libraries.

what do you mean by "external libraries"?? the runtime libraries or other 3rd 
party libraries?

oh, and for books i saw this in the "Free Pascal / Lazarus IDE" community on G+ 
the other day...

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Marc Hanisch (dubst3pp4) owner
Books and Magazines -  Yesterday 6:21 AM

As every year some days before Christmas Packt Publishing sells every eBook and 
video course for just $5. Among some Delphi books also the title Getting 
Started with Lazarus IDE, which targets Lazarus newcomers and ex-Delphi-users.

https://www.packtpub.com/application-development/getting-started-lazarus-ide
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i don't know what Blaise does, if anything, but they have a book, too...

http://www.blaisepascal.eu/subscribers/UK/UK_Book_Department_LearnToProgramUsingLazarus.html

or http://tinyurl.com/zzhtju4

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