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Free Pascal => FPC development => Topic started by: Thaddy on June 12, 2018, 04:37:46 pm

Title: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Thaddy on June 12, 2018, 04:37:46 pm
Freepascal has grown of age (25) even before my eldest daughter (still 24).
I think a huge compliment is due to Florian and the other compiler devs for building, maintaining, documenting, hosting and pursuing new features.
This is almost unparalleled with such a small team.
Congratulations and may many years of such achievements follow...

Florian, you have created the single most open source project that I truly like and that really touches my heart.

Thank you. (And the rest of the team....)

Thaddy
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: cappe on June 12, 2018, 06:41:09 pm
congratulations on my part too. You have given possibilities to many people.
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Nitorami on June 12, 2018, 06:48:21 pm
I wish I had discovered fpc 25 years ago, instead of trying to work around turbo pascal's limitations - 64k limit. 16bit making longint operations painfully slow. 8 character file names. No dynamic arrays. No operator overloading. Delay bug in crt unit. And many others I did not even perceive as limitation before I started with FPC.

Congratulations and big thanks to the developers from my side, too !
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: guest48180 on June 12, 2018, 07:47:51 pm
Long live Free Pascal, the developers who breathe life into it, and this community that molds and shapes its form. Excellent stuff fosho!
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: jwdietrich on June 12, 2018, 09:36:35 pm
Congratulations and thanks to Florian and all other developers! You gave a treat to all mankind.
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: JanRoza on June 12, 2018, 09:45:20 pm
Congratulations and compliments for a wonderful product to Florian and all developers and maintainers.  ;D
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Lulu on June 12, 2018, 09:55:54 pm
25 years is very good! I hope I can still program with FPC when I'm 80! :)
Thanks to all the FPC team!
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: chenyuchih on June 13, 2018, 02:11:29 am
Thank you the development teams, both FPC and Lazarus.

You give the old, but graceful, language new life. I like to read/write meaningful words rather than symbol and hate some short, but weird, syntax. I love Pascal and you make it powerful.

Thank you again for such good projects!
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: af0815 on June 13, 2018, 06:47:30 am
Thanks to Florian and his great idea 25 yrs back. Also thanks to all people for the support in this long time.

Andreas

BTW: I understand his motivation at this time, because i have worked/started  with TurboPascal 3.0 under CP/M :-)
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: RayoGlauco on June 13, 2018, 11:52:56 am
Congratulations to the whole team !! :)
I love FreePascal and Lazarus.
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Ñuño_Martínez on June 13, 2018, 11:59:40 am
Thank-you very much. :)
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: circular on June 13, 2018, 12:03:09 pm
Indeed. Without FreePascal and Lazarus, I don't know if I would still be able to program in Pascal.
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: PaulFMichell on June 13, 2018, 12:48:20 pm
The most rewarding parts of my career as a programmer have been working with FreePascal and Lazarus.  Thank you indeed!
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Windsurfer on June 13, 2018, 01:06:38 pm
I thought Delphi was wonderful when it came out. When I found fpc and Lazarus, I was a little dubious. Now, I have been using them longer than any other environment. Thanks for such a brilliant programming environment and a language and compiler that work so well and are so much easier than the others.
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: JD on June 13, 2018, 03:06:44 pm
Many thanks to the developers for an awesome product and to the contributors to this forum for their help in keeping the interest in FPC/Lazarus alive. Hats off to you all.

JD
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: kapibara on June 13, 2018, 03:16:56 pm
Thank you all for FPC and Lazarus!
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: Angus on June 16, 2018, 02:24:09 pm
Hi Guys
I have been using Pascal for over 20 years. I am not a developer but a scientist working with big data.  I found out about fpc when I could no longer justify the cost of Delphi.  However since my move to fpc and Lazarus my enjoyment and code has improved by miles.  Its just such a joy to work with these tools.  Its just great, keep it going.
Kind regards
Angus
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: lainz on June 16, 2018, 02:59:00 pm
Thanks for FPC and Lazarus!  :)
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: RAW on June 16, 2018, 07:36:34 pm
FPC and the LAZARUS IDE are very nice indeed.
AND the forum is a very nice place where you can find a lot of information, just by reading some threads from time to time...

I've got more than 1.000 txt files with code snippets right now!
AND this way it's easy to see what libraries other programmers are using or talking about.
A very friendly forum with a lot of nice people who like to share a lot of code and information...

AND on Windows it's so easy to install and setup everything. Very fast and very easy...
Title: Re: 25 years of FreePascal
Post by: silvestre on June 16, 2018, 08:55:47 pm
Congratulations to the team and friends of FPC and Lazarus.
Reference site for pascal object language lovers; good information, expert people to learn from. A good place without a doubt.
Thank you.  :)
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