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[kajdas <kajdas@...>]

The last time I used Pascal was in university and for a short time after 
that.
For most part, Pascal is used in educational environment and not in the 
professional one.
Every major operating system is written in C and most of application 
programming is done in C/C++.
If a programmer does not know C/C++, then he is limited to a very narrow 
field of expertise.
There is nothing wrong with that and it can be done, but supporting a 
narrow audience is very costly (timewise).
The problem is not really the choice of a language; C++ vs. Pascal, but 
the programming experience; advanced vs. beginner.
Beginners will get lost no matter what language is used.

I think creating another project/fork of Kicad just to support Pascal 
takes a lot of effort that could be used elsewhere.
Just my opinion,
Martin

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:02 AM , alex_p_silva wrote:

> Hello friends I would like to exchange an idea with friends I see 
> quite a programming in pascal and nothing programming in C, would like 
> to share a dream logic that I have with the permission of the 
> developers official kicad to make a version similar to opensouce you 
> make using the compiler Lazarus, if allowed and friends would find 
> this interesting idea to start working on the project logically with 
> the help of others.
> I like the style and features of kicad and consider it a powerful 
> tool but many beginners even a long time ago I was lost because the 
> resources it is a bit hidden. So I would like to contribute more to 
> the project