On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Jürgen Hestermann <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 2013-12-28 13:19, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >>> I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java >>> instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If >>> they care, why they would be leaving Delphi? >> If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a >> marginal oss compiler. > > The question is: > Why did they use Delphi before at all? > > If the reason was that Delphi was a very common and widespread programming > environment > then it is a understandable behaviour to move to the next main stream > environment > as soon as budget and time allows. > Such people would never care about FPC/Lazarus (even when it was fully > Delphi "compatible"). > They would never think about using it. > So making FPC/Lazarus "compatible" would not hold any user of this group. > > If the reason was that they like Pascal as an easy to learn and > mantain language then they will invest into migration even > if not all parts are the identical to Delphi. > Just the opposite: > They may like that not all misconcepts are repeated in > FPC/Lazarus and they may like that it is open source.
+1 Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
