Glad to see this

[Edwin Martens]

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 ?



 

[marcov]

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

[JD]

I 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

[Dr.Theopolis]

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.

[BitBangerUSA]

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

@Edwin Martens - your opinion of Lazarus/FPC?