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Re: Free Pascal and Lazarus?

Ram — Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:21 pm

Author: Ram

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 1:21 pm

It emulates Delphi,

In 1995 Borland revived its version of Pascal when it introduced the rapid application development environment named Delphi - turning Pascal into a visual programming language. The strategic decision was to make database tools and connectivity a central part of the new Pascal product. sourced from

I've used it in the past to recreate a program I first built with Delphi.

Re: Free Pascal and Lazarus?

Nuke — Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:58 am

Author: Nuke

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 11:58 am

I've never heard of Lazarus but it sounds like an implementation of Pascal.

If you are already into Pascal, that's fine, but having used it myself at one time I found Pascal very frustrating. It is very, very fussy about the order that your code is in. Fix one bug and it results in five new ones, I found.

I believe it originated as a teaching tool to force students to use structured code, which is why the compiler nags you so much.

Maybe Lazarus is different though ......

Free Pascal and Lazarus?

PLan — Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:04 am

Author: PLan

Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2012 10:04 am

Is anyone using Lazarus to develop? What are your opinions of it?