On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 12:37:57PM +0200, Juha Manninen wrote:
Even Delphi changed the language name from Object Pascal to Delphi, for
marketing reasons and to avoid confusion.
It was mostly for trademark reasons I think, since Object Pascal is not
easily trademarked (since there was an ISO
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 12:23:18AM +0200, Reenen Laurie wrote:
I don't think that changing the name is likely, but just a couple of things
to take into consideration:
1) Currently searching Lazarus gives you the no 1 hit on google
(admittedly on Yahoo and Bing this application doesn't reach
This mail was buried in another thread so I lifted it here.
In a marketing sense the name Free Pascal Compiler Lazarus is really poor.
There could be a new name covering both these projects. Free Pascal Compiler
and Lazarus would be its sub-projects. That would be in marketing sense only,
it
Juha Manninen wrote:
Even Delphi changed the language name from Object Pascal to Delphi, for
marketing reasons and to avoid confusion.
I personally hated this change and it was very confusing in Kylix
documentation. Everybody knew delphi as the IDE, then in Kylix there was
references to
Cheetah?
Rhino?
Both:
I use Rhino IDE and Cheetah compiler - Though the compiler should stay
FPC... (just FPC?) Years from now ppl will know that the F is for
Friendly. :-D
I don't think that changing the name is likely, but just a couple of things
to take into consideration:
1) Currently
Hello,
I don't think we will be changing the name. There are already at least
3 books using the name Free Pascal and shortly there will also be
one using the name Lazarus.
Google also gives me first hit for Lazarus to www.lazarus.freepascal.org/
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Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
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