On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> This is already possible? See http://www.freepascal.org/docs.html the "with > comments" > part. > > > More Marketing > > ------------------- > > If you want to market Pascal don't expect the FPC devel team to do it.. > > expect people like > > business owners, developers, and website owners to do it. If people see > > seven hundred > > sites using CGI mailer scripts or forums written in Pascal that look cool, > > they will say > > "cool, was written in Pascal". > > I think that is partially correct. What is done with FPC is at least as > important as how FPC looks, maybe even more important. > > > better) I still see so many of you using PHP based web sites to market > > Pascal as a good development system. This ain't gonna help Pascal - that's > > clash. Instead of the PHP extension we need to see something like PSP or > > PPP or PGI. > > I don't think there lies Pascal's strength. All those webengine systems are > already > similar, and don't really show a particular strength of FPC/Pascal, they just > formulate > the same problem with slightly different syntax. While this is correct, we should provide some paradigma to work with web-apps in pascal. There have been some small efforts, but none really 'click'... > > I'd go as far as having a button in Lazarus to turn off the component > > palette. I never use the component palette when making CGI apps, so I > > don't need it visible. If Delphi had features that allowed you to create > > applications that weren't so TForm based (but still with RAD capabilities, > > like inserting snippets of text, etc) then a lot more people wouldn't > > knock it as a VB clone. > > Waste of good developer time. Maybe in time menubars can be more configurable. They are already. > > > (Maybe you know I'm working on Plugger for this > > reason - to help RAD capabilities for non visual apps - and maybe you know > > I'm trying hard to make RAD development for Pascal Server Pages integrated > > right into Lazarus IDE through plug-ins.) > > I'm afraid that this partially will fall into the same trap as Eclipse. The > I of IDE stands for integrated. Having major systems as the designer as > plugin system is > giving up possible integration. > > I think the current Lazarus architecture should never be pluggable or turned > off. Maybe the > plugin system can add additional form types. It can already. I recently wrote 2 articles about it for Toolbox (a German journal). Michael. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
