> Why are you constantly trying to convince Delphi people to switch to > Lazarus, even in the Embarcadero Forums?
I'm with Graeme in this regard because I rant about this in their forum once in a while. No, we never try to convince them to switch. What we do was convincing them that they do have an alternative. They could keep their Delphi for Windows platform. Somehow I had a pity on them when they're asking when 64bit support will arrive, or when Delphi will support other platforms beside Windows, or when Delphi will support a true RAD for web application, or when Delphi will support mobile device, etc. We're trying to tell them that Pascal as a language is *lot bigger than* Delphi, FPC, Lazarus, Morfik, Oxygene, or whatever Pascal-based compiler/IDE out there. Pascal is all of them combined. Thinking that "Pascal = Delphi" is a big mistake, IMO. In fact, if they don't stick their mind to Delphi, they would got plenty alternatives for what they need in Pascal. So, instead of begging to Delphi producer to provide what they need, I tried to open their mind by suggesting another alternative (FPC/Laz in this case) and asked them to look around. The solution is available out there if they dare to look. I once got a friend who is a very fluent Delphi programmer (though mostly database app). When he got a project to build a web based application, he left Delphi behind and switch to PHP because all he knew Delphi is only for desktop application. He wrote millions LOC of the business logic in PHP from the scratch while actually he already got them all in Delphi. He finished the project in a few months. After I told him that Delphi actually can be used to build web application (using Powtils in this case), he regretted what he had done. If he knew this before, he could finish his project within a few weeks. I don't want more Delphi programmers experience similar cases: abandon millions LOC simply because they don't know the power of Pascal. :( -Bee- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
