I like the name Lazarus (I'm Greek btw), it means "Resurection" and it has the potential indeed to become so (for both Pascal and Delphi/Object Pascal). BTW, at conference hosted by eurodevcon.com, well known speakers in the Borland tools world will talk about the future of Delphi, C++ and JBuilder according to their promotion e-mail I recently got
---------------- George Birbilis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Microsoft MVP J# for 2004-2006 Borland "Spirit of Delphi" * QuickTime, QTVR, ActiveX, VCL, .NET http://www.kagi.com/birbilis * Robotics http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~Robotics http://www.mech.upatras.gr/~robgroup > -----Original Message----- > From: Ido Kanner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2006 7:08 PM > To: [email protected]; Michael Van Canneyt > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [lazarus] Request for PR noise ! > > Quoting Michael Van Canneyt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > > On Sun, 14 May 2006, Ales Katona wrote: > > > > > 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. _____ avast! Antivirus <http://www.avast.com> : Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0628-2, 11/07/2006 Tested on: 12/7/2006 1:56:09 ?? avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2006 ALWIL Software. _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
