Glad to see this
lazarus / 8-Other

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Edwin Martens · 2015-06-29 14:17

I always thought delphi/pascal was dead and burried,
I moved to C++ long ago

p.s. is it realy neccesary to use verification in every single thing
you post ?

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marcov · 2015-06-29 14:21

The verification is only for the first couple of posts, and is an anti
spam measure.

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JD · 2015-06-29 14:38

Quote from: Edwin Martens on June 29, 2015, 04:17:28 pmI always
thought delphi/pascal was dead and burried,
I moved to C++ long ago

I hope you'll continue to be pleasantly surprised! I had to leave C++
when I needed to do RAD development. I love wxWidgets but C++ is just
a pain where RAD is concerned & the Qt license was a bit restrictive
for me. So I moved to Delphi & then to Lazarus which I now use 80% of
the time.

JD

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Dr.Theopolis · 2015-06-30 21:45

I bought a copy of Delphi 3 at a computer show for about $10 back in
the 90's. I didn't know what it was - I thought it was a database
application. It sat on a shelf for 6 months. I was doing all my
programming in C++ and it was very difficult for me. One day I decided
to take a closer look at Delphi and it was like a breath of fresh air.
For me, C++ is like stumbling through a field of jagged rocks and
object pascal is like swiftly swimming through a flowing stream. Back
in my Delphi days, employers paid for the software. But now that I am
doing hobby programming mostly for myself, I am so glad Lazarus
exists.

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BitBangerUSA · 2015-07-04 03:17

Glad... me too. Found out about Lazarus/FPC just under a year ago.

@Edwin Martens - your opinion of Lazarus/FPC?