What next indeed.
The Delphi/Pascal link should not be surprising given that Borland
bundled InterBase in with Delphi. My guess is that MySQL became popular
because it was GPL and got bundled in with Linux and Apache - and so on.
I doubt whether any database is "popular" in a given niche because it
(or its API) is technically the best (see VHS vs Betamax).
Firebird has inherited InterBase's Delphi niche and that core body of
users needs to be protected if it is to have a future. As for what is
next - you need to build a new application or application framework
around Firebird that is itself popular. The rest follows.
On 30/07/14 23:21, Tom Coleman wrote:
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> I doubt that you're going to see any other database with 88% Pascal
> usage:
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> http://www.scriptol.com/programming/popularity-languages-2014.php
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> So it could probably be argued that Firebird has captured the Pascal
> market.
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> What next?
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> On Jul 30, 2014, at 6:11 PM, Tony Whyman wrote:
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>> Well, if there is any conclusion you can get from this is that 87% of
>> respondents are working in Pascal and hence the importance of
>> ensuring that a suitable language binding is available for Pascal.
>> But, even though I am a strong advocate of Pascal, I also use PHP
>> and C++ with Firebird, and I would be the first to argue that Pascal
>> is not the only language that needs to be supported.
>>
>> Regardless of which language is the most used, the Firebird API
>> should be programming language neutral, and while such surveys are
>> very interesting they should not be used to argue that support of one
>> programming language is more important than another.
>>
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