It's a little off-topic, but as the comment was asking about pascal and lazarus, I will put it here:
In a Spanish blog, a fresh graduated asked about what programming languages should learn. People post their opinions, and someone asked "What about delphi/object-pascal/freepascal/lazarus? Nobody has mentioned it and we use it a lot in Argentina" http://empleo.barrapunto.com/comments.pl?sid=90556&cid=1350850 INHO, the reply was very interesting: "I used to program a lot in Object pascal at the end of XX century, and maybe until 2003. But since then I have had very little chances of using Object Pascal. And only when I could choose the tool. Last time I used it was a day I decided to evaluate Lazarus. Desktop applications are declining. On a hand we have a lot of new devices that usually use Java, Objective-C, and on the other hand we have Web applicationes. So desktop applications are in small niche, like its development tools. Here is an example: A friend of mine works for a company that has been hired by a bank to rebuild the workstation software. Now client are running on XP and the software is written in .NET (and VB4!!!). The are moving to client software running in a local server written in PHP and workstations with a browser with a lot of javascript. The Operating system of clients and its hardware becomes irrelevant. IT is always changing, but the change that is coming is deeper than usual." I still work a lot with native desktop, but recently I asked about the options to change the interface to web with ExPasJS etc. I'm afraid we are moving to that. Native GUI is the best... but "native" has become a moving target. Now we have many devices, we use remote connections more that a few years ago, so we don't know what is in the client side. Even windows, the most extended desktop, changes its GUI from version to version, so many times you are forced to redesign the interface of your applications. It would be wonderful if we could have a standard GUI for every device/operating system. There have been several attempts (Freedesktop, Fresco) etc. The one we have now is HTML+Javascript, it's ugly, it's slow, it's a lot of bad things, but it's a standard. Look what ever device you want and there is a browser. That's why there are many tools that make extensive use of javascript like Gnome Shell (even a full OS like FirefoxOS) . Perhaps Lazarus should start thinking about a widget "html+javascript" and prioritize it. -- Regards Santiago A. s...@ciberpiula.net -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
