Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 04:20 PM, Massimo Soricetti wrote: I agree absolutely. Trying to use a complex entity as Lazarus+FPC+LCL+packages without extensive documentation it's a delusion, and this should be obvious to every programmer in the world nowadays. Here, very recently, has been a very

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-29 Thread Michael Schnell
On 02/28/2012 05:25 PM, William Oliveira Ferreira wrote: sometimes all lazarus' users wanna see core team do something that themselves can Of course there are many outside the core team who would be able and willing to help improving the documentation. But to allow them to do this, there

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-29 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
I'm thinking here, a tool like we have on php.net that allows everyone to post comments on wiki pages should be good to keep somethings as it goes by now. many people post case of use of functions, alternate routines, when they shouldn't be used, etc. it's easy enable user's comment on lazarus'

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 28-2-2012 9:43, Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho wrote: But summing up, more then yet another discussion on this topic, what really helps is contributions. If you think that Pascal needs better support for the Internet, well, then just write some tutorials about fpweb, write a usage statistics

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! William de Oliveira Ferreira Bacharel em Sistemas de Informação 2012/2/28 Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com I believe that is a

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that is a lost cause, because Pascal doesn't exist, or Pascal is just uncool.  :-( I think not necessarely. Last year I complained a bit and they were quite open about it, and apparently they changed

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rigel R.
От: Lukasz Sokol Относно: Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong? До: lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org Изпратено на: Вторник, 2012, Февруари 28 11:08:16 EET On 27/02/2012 11:49, Rigel Rigel wrote: [snip] Sorry for cutting all of this out, but [to the OP]: As you can see

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rigel R.
to continue. От: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Относно: Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong? До: Lazarus mailing list Изпратено на: Вторник, 2012, Февруари 28 10:43:08 EET 2012/2/28 Rigel Rigel : I think Java is a C/C++ dialect. Java is totally different from C/C++, it is only

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 28/02/2012 12:11, Rigel R. wrote: I do not understand why insulting me. Maybe because you are stupid and do not understand what I write? All described applications using CGI or others languages who are not written in Pascal. Now you understand or you need more explanations? If so, read the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
My intend in start this thread was in order to make visible the potential of the FPC/Lazarus, that i believe is more than Java. 2012/2/28 Lukasz Sokol el.es...@gmail.com On 28/02/2012 12:11, Rigel R. wrote: I do not understand why insulting me. Maybe because you are stupid and do not

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Massimo Soricetti
Il 28/02/2012 16:01, Hans-Peter Diettrich ha scritto: Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass instead of quality. No, the *documentation* is in an horrible state. Every possible user will need some documentation, before he starts to write code. As he doesn't find such documentation,

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! +-1 Yes, much time is spent on the *code*, on mass

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Sven Barth
Am 28.02.2012 17:25, schrieb William Oliveira Ferreira: sometimes all lazarus' users wanna see core team do something that themselves can Thank you for speaking that out aloud :) writing a basic article of how to compile a basic application, how compiler directives affects the way fpc manage

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
That's just the way i understand the meaning of community and opensource projects: Everyone helping with what they can (if they want), not just a little group... Today, i simply can't get the lazarus' source and solve a bug because i have a limted knowledge of how it works internally but i can

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 13:25 -0300 schrieb William Oliveira Ferreira: sometimes all lazarus' users wanna see core team do something that themselves can I absolutely agree with you. Because I do I'd like to ask you to do two things: 1. Please answer to the mail you're referring to - which

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
I'm always looking for ways of more participation and, please, believe me, today is not clear. If you work on a company, by example, embarcadero, is very clear the way the work is done. There's a very well knew structure of how that happens. Here, i'm on a small company making software and the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/2/28 Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de 2. Do not top post, instead try to reply inline, so anyone can understand, what part of the mail you are talking about. Sorry about that. I do it 'cos gMail do it automatically and i just follow, but i'll try to stop... --

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
I understand what you want to help but i don't think it's too hard as i understand how. Exaclty how you wanna help? As i can see, if you found a bug and solved it in your pc, you can submit a patch generated by a svn tool in bugtracker. If you wanna enter in the core staff, well, the current staff

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Rich Saunders
On 2/28/12 12:27 PM, Everton Vieira wrote: I'm always looking for ways of more participation and, please, believe me, today is not clear. If you work on a company, by example, embarcadero, is very clear the way the work is done. There's a very well knew structure of how that happens. Here, i'm

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Everton Vieira
I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with project management and has the insight of how could be done in the open source enviroment knows on what i'm talking about it. 2012/2/28

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 13:23 -0500 schrieb Rich Saunders: Today, i simply can't get the lazarus' source and solve a bug because i have a limted knowledge of how it works internally but i can submit bugs on mantis, that's a way that i can help. On my environment, with

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread William Oliveira Ferreira
2012/2/28 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com I'll try once more to tell on what i'm refering: project managemant of the development. All that i have to say about it is in that. Who some day had worked with project management and has the insight of how could be done in the open source

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:52 PM, waldo kitty wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: why did they reject? do they, too, think that pascal is dead? No reason was provided. -- Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Santhoff schrieb: rant If poeple would stop ranting or complaining, real work could be getting done. Why do discussions like this end up in the same complaints any time? /rant Right, the customers are the brake-shoes in every business. Simply ignoring them will increase the in-house

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Hans-Peter Diettrich
Marc Santhoff schrieb: Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the fpc/lazarus team is doing a wonderfull work! +-1 Yes, much time is spent on the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 21:56 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Marc Santhoff schrieb: rant If poeple would stop ranting or complaining, real work could be getting done. Why do discussions like this end up in the same complaints any time? /rant Right, the customers are the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-28 Thread Marc Santhoff
Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 21:45 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: Marc Santhoff schrieb: Am Dienstag, den 28.02.2012, 16:01 +0100 schrieb Hans-Peter Diettrich: William Oliveira Ferreira schrieb: Well, i think all pascal developers should do something about it and, all the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Rigel Rigel
What is the main reason that Java / C + + is better known than Lazarus / FPC? INTERNET. For Example even Microsoft in his great years can't beat Internet! If you remember the advertising of one of the version of Windows was: The Internet looks like Windows! They understood that it is not so.

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel : Web Programing. I know only one web sait written in Lazarus: www.lazarussupport.com. Here you go, here is a wiki engine and website I wrote in Object Pascal. It's a very small application, but it's a website written in Object Pascal, using the Lazarus IDE (though any

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel ri...@gbg.bg: Interten applications like below was writen on C/C++ I never heard of a web page written in C/C++ Even Lazarus use qt, gtk... Not necessarely. In LCL for Android everything is done in Lazarus itself: http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Custom_Drawn_Interface

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 13:35:08 +0100 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: I never heard of a web page written in C/C++ http://cppcms.com/wikipp/en/page/main or http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/ R. -- ___ Lazarus mailing list

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 25/02/2012 21:51, Frank Church wrote: [...] You have Delphi to blame here, because somehow Borland's marketing of Delphi deemphasized the Pascal dimension of Delphi with the effect that most people don't identify Pascal with Delphi. The terms FPC and Lazarus don't give any indication that

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/25 Frank Church vfclists@ The terms FPC and Lazarus don't give any indication that Pascal is the language. I only noticed now that your statement is totally wrong. You do realise that FPC is an acronym for Free Pascal Compiler?  Note the word Pascal? You can't get much clearer

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-27 Thread Rigel Rigel
От: Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho Относно: Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong? До: Lazarus mailing list Изпратено на: Понеделник, 2012, Февруари 27 14:35:08 EET 2012/2/27 Rigel Rigel : Interten applications like below was writen on C/C++ I never heard of a web page written

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: 4 Hours later we had a working product that did everything we required! Another hour later, the database was loaded with all our existing bug reports, feature requests, attachments like images, sound clips etc. I would love to see somebody else do similar with other

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/26 zeljko : I just wrote an article on how to write an Android app, using only the Android Java APIs. Where's link to that article ? If it is for the same magazine I write for (freeX), then the next publish date is 1 March, and articles may only be made public (by the author) one

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 26 February 2012 10:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: used as a system programming language. My own experience indicates that as soon as you start using a 4GL or similar for anything that the implementors didn't think of you're in very deep water. I guess in my 5 years of Turbo Pascal and 15

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Frank Church
On 25 February 2012 22:29, Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.li...@gmail.comwrote: 2012/2/25 Frank Church : who ask themselves If I am starting a new project, is Pascal the right one? Of course not! snip In relation to Eclipse above, The minimum 2Gb or even 4Gb or RAM needed to run Eclipse

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 26 February 2012 10:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: used as a system programming language. My own experience indicates that as soon as you start using a 4GL or similar for anything that the implementors didn't think of you're in very deep water. I guess in my 5 years

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-26 Thread Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 2:17 PM, Marc Santhoff m.santh...@web.de wrote: And something more: I can hardly close my mouth reading that lazarus and fpc are generating java byte code and are having an android widget set. I'll try using that as soon as possible. =) Just one small correction: The

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Marco van de Voort
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:55:17PM -0200, Everton Vieira wrote: How to improve things: - Better container lib. - Better documentation. - Easier installation. - Publicity! This would be the most important now. The other parts are in a decently good condition. Successful projects have a

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Church
On 25 February 2012 13:52, Marco van de Voort mar...@stack.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:55:17PM -0200, Everton Vieira wrote: How to improve things: - Better container lib. - Better documentation. - Easier installation. - Publicity! This would be the most important now. The

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Sven Barth
On 25.02.2012 18:19, Frank Church wrote: Many Pascal programmers are well versed in the language, and the associated tools, having began using it even before the Turbo Pascal era. let alone the Dephi/Object Pascal period. They are quite fine working as they are and can get to speed quickly.

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: How about the reluctance to put documentation in library code? The policy with fpdoc is to create documentation separately from code. The problem is who has time for that. If documentation goes into the code it is better as it forces you to think

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:49:18 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: FPC can produce Java Bytecode and can leverage the whole Java API and all Java libraries. But neither FPC nor Lazarus can give you all the goodies the Android SDK Eclipse plugin can give you

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Frank Church
2012/2/13 Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com This discussion walked too much about the tech which i don`t think is the case. But JuhaManninen had said so goodly: The fact is that FPC / Lazarus is an almost unknown niche language / environment. I am studying information technology and

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Michael Van Canneyt
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Reimar Grabowski wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 18:49:18 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: FPC can produce Java Bytecode and can leverage the whole Java API and all Java libraries. But neither FPC nor Lazarus can give you all the goodies the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
2012/2/25 Frank Church : who ask themselves If I am starting a new project, is Pascal the right one? Of course not! I don't get that... why not? Pascal (or rather Object Pascal) is a brilliant language. It is easy to read and understand - even by non-Pascal developers (just like I can read and

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:08:11 +0100 Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho felipemonteiro.carva...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 10:12 PM, Reimar Grabowski reimg...@web.de wrote: But neither FPC nor Lazarus can give you all the goodies the Android SDK Eclipse plugin can give you If

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread Reimar Grabowski
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 23:21:16 +0100 (CET) Michael Van Canneyt mich...@freepascal.org wrote: Luckily, I didn't claim any such thing :) Luckily, I never said you did. :) I can do anything I want/need with FPC/Lazarus itself, for me that is good enough. Most likely I can, too, but I would miss

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-25 Thread zeljko
On Saturday 25 of February 2012 18:49:18 Michael Van Canneyt wrote: On Sat, 25 Feb 2012, Frank Church wrote: How about the reluctance to put documentation in library code? The policy with fpdoc is to create documentation separately from code. The problem is who has time for that. If

[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
Why the Java became so strong? We could think about the good large library. We could think about the eclipse IDE. We could think about the partnerships. But doesn`t matter. What`s matter is that the fpc/lazarus has even more potential than. What`s matter is why this potential have not yet

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Curt Carpenter
This is a good question, I think. No idea what the answer is -- just familiar with the TIOBE data. My guess is that JAVA has more corporate sponsorship -- but I will be interested in hearing what others have to say. I often wonder if there would be any possibility of a creative,

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-2-2012 16:19, Everton Vieira wrote: Why the Java became so strong? We could think about the good large library. We could think about the eclipse IDE. We could think about the partnerships. But doesn`t matter. What`s matter is that the fpc/lazarus has even more potential than.

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Dave Coventry
On 13 February 2012 17:19, Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com wrote: Why the Java became so strong? We could think about the good large library. We could think about the eclipse IDE. We could think about the partnerships. But doesn`t matter. What`s matter is that the fpc/lazarus has even

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
Em 13/02/2012, às 13:45, Reinier Olislagers escreveu: I think a lot of people will appreciate it if you start a new topic by posting a new message to the list, not replying to a previous message. I though i had separated the topics, sorry about it. Otherwise, your messages end up in the

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
I found this: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13754.msg86355.html#msg86355 But not sure if you referred this. Em 13/02/2012, às 14:06, Everton Vieira escreveu: Em 13/02/2012, às 13:45, Reinier Olislagers escreveu: I think a lot of people will appreciate it if you start

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Reinier Olislagers
On 13-2-2012 17:24, Everton Vieira wrote: I found this: http://forum.lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13754.msg86355.html#msg86355 But not sure if you referred this. Yep, that's the thread I was talking about... Regards, Reinier -- ___

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
This discussion walked too much about the tech which i don`t think is the case.But JuhaManninen hadsaid sogoodly:"The fact is that FPC / Lazarus is an almost unknown niche language / environment. I am studying information technology and programming in a university of applied sciences and there

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
The market and the education environments are practical unaware that we exist. Em 13/02/2012, às 14:55, Everton Vieira escreveu: This discussion walked too much about the tech which i don`t think is the case. But JuhaManninen had said so goodly: The fact is that FPC / Lazarus is an

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Sven Barth
On 13.02.2012 17:55, Everton Vieira wrote: But JuhaManninen had said so goodly: The fact is that FPC / Lazarus is an almost unknown niche language / environment. I am studying information technology and programming in a university of applied sciences and there nobody knows about FPC or

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Sven Barth wrote: On 13.02.2012 17:55, Everton Vieira wrote: But JuhaManninen had said so goodly: The fact is that FPC / Lazarus is an almost unknown niche language / environment. I am studying information technology and programming in a university of applied sciences and there nobody knows

Re: [Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

2012-02-13 Thread Everton Vieira
Thanks for the correction! :-) Must be my english that fails! Em 13/02/2012, às 17:44, Marcos Douglas escreveu: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Everton Vieira tonvie...@gmail.com wrote: Is true, but in the mind of most of this people the pascal is dead. And the better of this people will be