On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, George Lober wrote:
> > 1. FPC/Lazarus is a european project mostly
>
>
> This fact baffles me. Why isn't there more participation in development
> from North America ? Surely the appeal of Pascal isn't limited to
> cultural or national borders. Is it lack of interest for Pascal ? Is
> everybody just content with using Delphi over here ?
I can answer that. It isn't taught in school at all. If you go to any
school and I mean any school that teaches CompSci in any way they will
tell you that, "Pascal is a dead and useless language. Nobody uses Pascal
anymore".
I have actually asked them about Delphi and they have never heard of it.
That is why there is such a lack of interest in the US. The general
thought process has already killed it off.
The following can also be found in the Wikipedia page about Pascal.
"While very popular (although more so in the 1980s and early
1990s than now), early versions of Pascal have been widely
criticised for being unsuitable for "serious" use outside
of teaching."
This is the general information that is passed along to business in the
US. No business interest. No popularity. Little use.
I know some are going to say, "Wait a minutes we use it all the time". I
realize this but the overall concept is that it is a dead and unused
language. At one point I ask people in the IT Dept where I work if they
ever heard of Delphi. They had not. They didn't know what it was.
So guess what. If they don't even know what Delphi is they are not going
to move to use FPC/Lazarus. It is a very tough sell here in the US.
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