Subj : Re: Compiler for Pascal
To   : Mark Lewis
From : Scott Brown
Date : Fri Apr 09 2010 08:12 am

ml> lazarus is a GUI interface that provides additional RAD type capabilities 
ml> FPC (Free Pascal Compiler) which is the real meat underneath the beast...

I downloaded free pascal first and it worked fine with it's own frontend, I
also downloaded turbo pascal. Had a few compiling issuses with turbo pascal,
but I did get it to work. So far lazarus seems to work the best (once I
figured out how to use it a little). I've been doing some reading online and
trying out some simple code and it seems a lot easier than some of the other
things I've tried to teach myself. 
ml> FWIW: as an old pascal hand, i still have troubles with Laz/FPC because i'
ml> never done the delphi or object pascal stuff... they say to get a decent
ml> delphi book and you can go with that but i've yet to find a "decent" delph
ml> book or one that can reliably point me in the proper direction for the
ml> components used in Lazarus... some things are named differently and if you
ml> don't even know what they were called in the beginning it is very hard to 
ml> what they may be called now...

I'll have to try and find some delphi books to read, I've never been good
with object programming in anything. All the C++ programming I did was C++ in 
structured format. lol.. not pretty, but I never needed it for anything other 
than writing a program to convert data from mapper to filepro.

ml> i read the lazarus mailing list every day and suggest that others interest
ml> in lazarus do the same... one may want to also participate in their web fo
ml> but i find them quite lacking for numerous reasons...

I'll have to get on the mailing list. Thanks for the advice.

Scott....

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