Quoting Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>
> On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ales Katona wrote:
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> > Lazarus might not be the best of names but neither is Delphi and
> > especialy not Gambas (which sounds extremely moronic).
> >
> > Delphi is a stupid name too, it's just marketing which got it to the
> > position it has.
>
> Amen to that :-)
>
> If Lazarus puts pascal as a language on the map again, it's name is
> VERY well chosen indeed, as Lazarus rose again from the grave !!
>
> LOL
> if we're going the religious tour anyway, let's go all the way ;-)
In that case lets choose the name "The Holy Grail" :P that way it will make
anything else not that holy...
Delphi is a location at greece, where the Oracle women saw things... so you can
see that greek is very pupolar in computer names :)
I'm very pround at Pascal, but we never actually marked this language.... even
Borland never did so (I never seen borland's add in my country ... and I used to
work at the same location (few streets actually) from where the company that
market them is sitting...
To market "smart people use Pascal" will never work! instead, we should build
tools that people needs and can't do without, and they will need Pascal for
that.
In my country, there where two such tools in the past (two word proccessors),
when one of them existed on *every* computer that needed word processor. The
problem was, that Microsoft stolen that market, and it caused the company to
close itself.
I tried few years ago to talk with them in order to make the word processor open
source, and even to pay some monay to them, but they never responded.
There was/is another word processor that was written in pure TP, and now there
is an attempt to make rewrite it to Windows... I tried to contact (after few
contacts by them) them forther, but no luck :(
So if you build something that people actually will need and use, then it will
be much better then just try to sell the name Pascal or Lazarus IMHO.
>
> Michael.
>
Ido
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