Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Schnell
While this of course is a good idea (and decent comments were presented by others), ... Why not (based on the text you have) write a real (commercial) book on Lazarus. Lazarus is approaching a non-beta state and is available for many platforms. Some days ago I used Lazarus to

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael Schnell wrote: While this of course is a good idea (and decent comments were presented by others), ... Why not (based on the text you have) write a real (commercial) book on Lazarus. Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by CL. Work has actually

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Schnell
Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by CL. Work has actually started. Sounds good. Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, in depth reference, multi-platform, networking, ... )

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Michael Schnell wrote: Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by CL. Work has actually started. Sounds good. Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, in depth

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Florian Klaempfl
Michael Schnell schrieb: Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by CL. Work has actually started. Sounds good. http://www.cul.de/lazarus.html ___ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Marco van de Voort
Michael Schnell schrieb: Well, a (german) lazarus book is in the works, by CL. Work has actually started. Sounds good. Of course there is room for more than one book if the authors care to target different aspects. (Delphi language, GUI/LCL, beginners, in depth reference,

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-07 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op maandag 07-01-2008 om 01:06 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Daniël Mantione: 3. The book does not cover objects in depth. I'm of two minds about how to cover object-oriented programming: I prefer Delphi's object model, but I've used Turbo Vision (I named it, in fact) and have some example

[fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-06 Thread Jeff Duntemann
Hi everybody-- I figured I would introduce myself, having just signed on to the list here. Some of you may already know me and my work. I've been a Pascal fanatic since I discovered the language in 1978 and wrote heavily about it for many years. I wrote COMPLETE TURBO PASCAL in 1985 and kept

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-06 Thread Daniël Mantione
Op Sun, 6 Jan 2008, schreef Jeff Duntemann: Hi everybody-- I figured I would introduce myself, having just signed on to the list here. Some of you may already know me and my work. I've been a Pascal fanatic since I discovered the language in 1978 and wrote heavily about it for many years.

Re: [fpc-devel] On recasting BORLAND PASCAL FROM SQUARE ONE for Free Pascal

2008-01-06 Thread Joost van der Sluis
Op zondag 06-01-2008 om 16:26 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Jeff Duntemann: I figured I would introduce myself, having just signed on to the list here. Some of you may already know me and my work. Well, I'm happy to say welcome to you here. After all, you're the one who learned Pascal to