On Sun, Oct 29, 2017 at 2:24 PM, Giuliano Colla <[email protected]> wrote: > Il 28/10/2017 16:45, Marcos Douglas B. Santos via Lazarus ha scritto: > >> Do you have problems to find new Pascal programmers? > > Experienced Pascal programmers are hard to find here in Italy. > But we've found that a good young programmer (usually trained in C) usually > appreciates the beauty of Pascal language, becomes fond of it, and very > quickly productive. > As in any case a new programmer must be trained to get acquainted with > company software practices, the extra time required to grasp the > fundamentals of Pascal is almost negligible.
In fact, this is a good strategy. But makes me thinking if is difficult to find C programmers as well. The C language is old as Pascal. Why people continues learning C but not Pascal? If Linux had been coded in Pascal, we might have a different history. :) Regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lazarus-ide.org/listinfo/lazarus
