Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by andrewshadura on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:26AM
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If it copies anything, it’s first of all Delphi, around the version 7 :)
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Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by nobleach on Saturday April 23, 2022 @10:42AM
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And 7 was just "let's try and add some 'web' to Delphi 6". And 6 was "Hey, Kylix is gonna be huge on Linux, so let's try and align Delphi 5"...
Still one of my favorite programming experiences in my life.
Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by FpUser on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:57AM
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It is way, way more than Delphi 7.
I've managed to easily port good sized modern Delphi project to run on Raspberry Pi using Lazarus.
Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by tomc1985 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:34AM
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Having never used Delphi, the parallels to VB were uncanny. So I guess Delphi copied VB
Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by FpUser on Saturday April 23, 2022 @11:56AM
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LOL. Delphi ran circle around VB. It could do what VB did but way better and could also do what MS C++ did. Obviously as you admit you have no real knowledge of the subject.
Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by tomc1985 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @12:07PM
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Wow, could you be any more haughty? I'm referring specifically to the UI. Yes I never worked with Delphi so I am indeed quite ignorant to its obviously apparent wonder.
Re:Lazarus – Professional Free Pascal Rad IDE
by FpUser on Saturday April 23, 2022 @03:24PM
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Delphi's precursors were Pascal as a language and ObjectVision as the concept of the UI (released in 1991). Both products created by Borland. It did not need VB to "copy from". Borland tools of the time were superior to MS and drove Gates nuts.