Hello, mark.

Wednesday September 30 2009 at 22:27, you wrote to me:

 ml> for the fix to be known as needed or even implemented... such is the
 ml> OSS way of life :?

There's no substitute for the real thing-that's why I use TP still.  I have
a bad taste in my mouth for a lot of OSS stuff (that's why I've never been
a big Linux fan, but that's another story for another place and time).

 ml> heck, i'm currently wading into trying to compile delphi code with
 ml> absolutely no knowledge of delphi and only grasping at the straws
 ml> necessary to "convert" the delphi code to lazarus/fpc for proper
 ml> compilation...

FPC can do Delphi just fine, but its Borland emulation (Turbo/Borland)
isn't very good IMNSHO.  I'd rather have something that works rather than
lots of bells and whistles.  A majority of programming for me is done in a
little DOS text editor and then I call TPC/BPC from within the program.

For OS/2 programming, I find VP much, much better and reliable than FPC
(probably for obvious reasons).
Later,
Sean

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