[DUG] Free Pascal

[Paul A Norman]

I also have very recently  just started looking at Lazarus again - but not
sure yet.  I also am not sure about inheritance issues but do not know
enough.

Had a few stability issues with exes while in debug mode.  Even just using
the openpicture dialog.

It could possibly be a good adjunct to use along with Delphi on a need to
basis.

Use each one for what they do best.

I **really like the cross platform compilation of Lazarus

With the spread of Ubuntu into unexpected places especially being run in VMs
(doesn;t always show  in statistics then) and all the other places LAzarus
recompiles, it is becoming attractive to us.

It may actaully not be an either/or situation. I.e not necessarily Delphi vs
Lazarus.

There may be things that Delphi will always do better, and there may be
things with its growing maturity from when I last looked at it - that
Lazarus does really well too.

As with both distributions, help information is a major issue.
Lazarus has improved though from when I last looked.

More the question is, how much should we donate if we are going to use
Lazarus?

I'm also very very taken with Python, and coming into it now can by pass
some of the ver 2.0 vs ver 3.0 debate. Really good philosphy in ver 3.0 over
the unicode and encoding issues over all, that has bothered me in php
sometimes.

Richard, you once said you liked Python, what's your take on it currently?

Paul





2009/9/24 John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>

> Anyone used it?
>
> I looked a bit at the web sites a couple of years ago, liked that much of
> it
> is designed to be Delphi compatible.
>
> Saw references to the compiler being nowhere near as fast, and producing
> executables that were huge and needed shrinking tools applied to them.
>
> Anyone used it and have comments?
>
> John
>
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