indeed! Here in Brasil Delphi/FPC has a large user base. People use it to write small programs to make the PC-Side of some bigger system. I do this a lot in my job.
We've got several positive factors on pascal in Brasil 1.) There is plenty of university courses that use/teach pascal as their first language or as part of some coursework. This creates potential language users for developing larger systems. 2.) Delphi has a tradition for writing great desktop + database applications. I think that the extremely powerful engines for databases that Delphi always had helped making this possible. In Brasil there is a demand for this kind of application and Delphi seems to be the language of choice. FPC/Lazarus is a free and equaly powerfull tool so it can be used to write this kind of software for the opensource world which still lacks this kind of application (with quite a few exceptions). It's not uncomon to see shops, restaurants, drugstores, gas stations, hospitals, etc being powered by applications written in Delphi by small software companies or by indivual developers. Like I said Delphi seems to be the language of choice for writing the PC-Side of some large system and for writing applications that drive small to medium business. On Sat, Dec 6, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it depends a lot on what you intend to develop, but in your > case it seams that there is no concrete goal other then having > something in the resumee if you get fired. In that case I would take a > look at the South African market and see what is the best option, not > only in availability of places to work but also in salary. Be careful > that you are asking in a global list, and the market will be different > in each country, and even each city. > > I went for learning web related languages, because that's something > with a not so good support in current pascal tools. I learned some > PHP, which is very popular for web here in Brasil and all of those > cheap hosting options supports it. > > I have recently learned some JSP in my university (Java for web) and > it deserves a prise for most bloated development environment in the > world. It requires huge labirintic directories structures, each peace > of code completely far from the others, totally forced me a design I > didn't want to follow. It is totally focused on development for teams > of 30 or more people, making it extremely unproductive for small > groups like I was working. It scared me so much that my oppinion about > MS technologies raised. > > By the way, I am each day more surprised that many companies are using > Free Pascal and Lazarus here in Brasil, in the electronics field in > which I work (no idea about other fields, but I would expect much). I > think that most of them were using Delphi. > > -- > Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho > _______________________________________________ > fpc-other maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other > -- Daniel "Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do." (Donald Knuth) "Yes, technogeeks can be funny, even if only to each other." (http://www.boogieonline.com/revolution/science/humor/)" "Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software." (Yukihiro Matsumoto, a.k.a. ``Matz'') _______________________________________________ fpc-other maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-other
