By the way, I'd better introduce myself!
Pascal/Lazarus newbie, although I did learn the basics of Pascal 20 years ago at Uni (long since forgotten). I've been programming in an 'obscure' language called
Euphoria for the last 12 years, but have been looking for something more heavyweight.
I'm not a professional programmer, but write code to analyse data (and for fun and to create various utilities).
I'm very happy to have found FP/Laz, although slightly nervous about learning OO concepts, which I've avoided until now, but I'm sure I'll get some help from this forum if need be.