A great tool for writing desktop applications

http://www.getlazarus.org/learn/tutorials/intro/

by sysrpl • 10 years ago

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dozzie• 10 years ago

Could be great if it didn't use Pascal. How would anybody pick this language over, for example, Ada? Even dozen years ago, when Lazarus was first publicly released.

detaro• 10 years ago

Until a few years while ago, Pascal/Delphi was the language most commonly teached in schools here in Germany, and many more learned it outside of it. I don't see why you bring up Ada of all alternatives (C, Basics, Java,...)?!

sysrpl• 10 years ago

Submitter/site creator here. The thing is it's Free Pascal, a fully object oriented version of Pascal geared up for visual applications. Language features include intrinsic events types (delegates in C#), run time type information (what makes live components possible), managed types (such as string, array, interface, and variant types), generics, operator overloading, implicit/explicit type convert plus a whole lot more.

That and it's based off Turbo Pascal and Delphi (it supports the full D7 dialect and many of the newer Delphi features as well). As such people have created a wonderful cross platform OS and widget set agnostic visual library called the LCL.

A great tool for writing desktop applications

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