On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Anthony W. Henry wrote:
> I recently responded to a question on the community board
> asking about an fpc book by recommending a Turbo Pascal
> book by Jeff Duntemann. His book started me out as a Pascal
> programmer in 1989 and I still find these old books useful from
> time to time.
>
> I have two by him:
> Turbo Pascal from Square One
> The Complete Borland Pascal
>
> Mr. Duntemann has also written other programming books and
> was employed by Borland for a while as a technical writer. I have
> found his books to be the best available for learning Pascal.
>
> When I responded to the board question it started a train of
> thought that resulted me in contacting Mr. Duntemann about writing
> a book on FPC. To my (pleased) surprise I found him provisionally
> enthusiastic for the project.(He hasn't made his mind up yet).
>
> He has the following questions for the community.
> POSTED WITH HIS PERMISSION.
>
> 1. What OS is most-used for Free Pascal? Windows? Linux?
If I remember the download statistics correctly:
Windows comes first and then Linux.
>
> 2. What libraries do most people use for console (i.e.,
> "terminal" or text-mode) apps? I dislike ncurses; is
> there a better way?
You can use crt or the video unit provided by FPC.
You have Free Vision, the Free Pascal port of the old turbo vision.
>
> 3. Does anybody really use Free Pascal to write Win32
> apps?
Sure. Some people use it to create their flagship applications.
> 4. Do people make heavy use of Free Pascal objects?
I think this depends on the definition of objects:
The Old TP-Style: probably not any more, or very limited at any rate.
The new Delphi style: Yes, it is heavily used.
As for information: he can always join this list or the lazarus list.
Michael.
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