Subj : Compiler for Pascal
To : mark lewis
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Wed Apr 07 2010 09:36 pm
Hello, mark.
Wednesday April 07 2010 at 13:43, you wrote to Scott Brown:
ml> FPC and Lazarus is really the only thing going these days that's
ml> free... everything else costs $$$...
Not true. You can find Delphi 7 Personal floating around and legit keys if you
look hard enough on Google (I have my own key I generated long ago on
Borland/Iniprise/Embarcadero/whateverthehelltheycallthemselvesnow's website).
The key (no pun intended) is you can only do freeware stuff with D7P.
In fact, if anyone wants D7P and my key (doesn't matter who it's registered to,
really), let me know via netmail or email and I'll be happy to provide it! No,
this isn't illegal.
ml> FWIW: as an old pascal hand, i still have troubles with Laz/FPC
ml> because i've never done the delphi or object pascal stuff... they say
ml> to get a decent delphi book and you can go with that but i've yet to
ml> find a "decent" delphi book or one that can reliably point me in the
ml> proper direction for the components used in Lazarus... some things are
ml> named differently and if you don't even know what they were called in
ml> the beginning it is very hard to know what they may be called now...
Wow, I got my first Delphi program running in about two minutes, even if it was
a form where you pressed the button "Hello World" appeared! Delphi is
easy-peasy compared to grinding out code, but you're locked into Windows if you
use it. You just have to change your mindset enough to think of Delphi's RAD
system as a "helper" to speed things along.
ml> i read the lazarus mailing list every day and suggest that others
ml> interested in lazarus do the same... one may want to also participate
ml> in their web forums but i find them quite lacking for numerous
ml> reasons...
What do you expect for free? <G> Really now.
I've had compatibility issues with using FPC on my various machines, so I've
just stuck to Borland/Turbo/Virtual Pascal.
Later,
Sean
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