Hello: In barrapunto.com (a Spanish slashdot) there is an article asking "What do you know about Lazarus?". Most comments were positive, and most negative comments were against Pascal (it's a dead language etc) more than against Lazarus.
Here is the link to the article (in Spanish) http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/article.pl?sid=09/09/28/2211206 But there were a few comments with objections to Lazarus. One of them was about debugger. This comment the (also in Spanish) http://preguntas.barrapunto.com/comments.pl?sid=82108&cid=1176899 In this comment he supported Lazarus, but the last paragraphs made some objections. Here is a translation of the last paragraphs, sorry if my English is not good enough "Some problems I find in Lazarus a those that unfortunatelly can be found in most OSS. On one hand they have amazing features that can't be found in their commercial counterparts, on the other hand they lack elemental features that are waiting to be implemented and waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting.... "Some of the elemental things I miss are: The debugger can't see properties values of objects (A framework for a OOP without being able to watch objects in the debuger!, that's an oxymoron) and nested procedures can't see parent variables. And some bugs never disappear, or disappear and appear again". Well, I don't know what bugs he was talking about, but about the debugger I think he is right. I would also add a help. Those should be 0 priority: you need to debug and with thousands of objects/functions you need to access to help very often. Code completion, folding code etc are wonderful features, but with a good debugger and a good help is like a car with GPS, four airbags, but with gas tank for two liters. Santiago A. [email protected]
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