Comment by foldl2022
1 month ago
Lazarus is still my favorite when developing desktop apps.
Language is not a problem. Pascal is just C/C++ in another favor. LCL/VCL is a wonderful library, everything just works like what I am expecting.
1 month ago
Lazarus is still my favorite when developing desktop apps.
Language is not a problem. Pascal is just C/C++ in another favor. LCL/VCL is a wonderful library, everything just works like what I am expecting.
Me too! I have a software in production for a client made with Lazarus 3 (in Pascal of course) and everybody loves the "Windows feel" of the Gui. On Linux there is Gambas [1] wich is like Lazarus but for Basic.
[1] https://gambaswiki.org/website/en/main.html
Lazarus is available on Linux too, and on some other platforms as well, is what I've read on its site.
I had a client habing trouble with and old vb6 software they where using in production. Replaced it with a lazarus app, and been running for 10 years now without problems.
Pascal is more ALGOL than C
ALGOL-60 was huge, in around 1960. Niklaus Wirth had a detailed proposal for the next version of ALGOL, to be called ALGOL-X.
The ALGOL committee rejected it, choosing a competing and much more complex language headed by Adriaan van Wijngaarden. This became ALGOL-68 -- and killed ALGOL.
Wirth took what was known as ALGOL-W and turned it into Pascal.
FWIW I wrote about this:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/01/04/niklaus_wirth_obituar...
https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/07/algol_68_comes_to_gcc...
Another offshoot of Algol-60 was CPL, intended to be more general-purpose and capable. But it was big and hard work to get it working.
So Martin Richards designed, a simpler intermediate version, BCPL. (He also built an OS in it, TRIPOS. This formed part of AmigaOS 1.x.)
BCPL was further stripped down to B, and then evolved into C.