Non-English Languages

[Dan]

I get the feeling that there are quite a few russian "pascal-speaking" programmers around
всем русским превед!

[Lord_ZealoN]

I get the feeling that there are quite a few russian "pascal-speaking" programmers around
всем русским превед!

yep. Pascal/Delphi is more "european". As you can see..all the webs and users (well, all not) about delphi/glscene/freepascal etc..are from North-Europa

[Fcw]

hmm,i think some chinese may activity in the forum,but i have seem only one,what a pity!

[WILL]

And Korean too. But no Japanese. :? Or at least none that have voted on this poll.

I was a bit supprised to see that someone put down 'Scots Gaelic' though. Considering that it's even more rare than 'Irish'. (known as just 'Gaelic' aswell I believe) Some might even consider it a dying language. Since everyone speaks English only in the British Isles now. So as far as I know anyhow.

If you have any other Chinese programmer friends bring them to the site too!

[cairnswm]

I was a bit supprised to see that someone put down 'Scots Gaelic' though.

Maybe AliMonster is back?

[WILL]

Well if this trend continues and no more English speaking members vote, I'll just have to change the site to a Russian language site...




So far we have....

Top 5 Primary Languages for PGD Members:

Russian 19% ( 23 )
English 15% ( 19 )
Dutch 8% ( 8 )
Spanish 5% ( 7 )
German 5% ( 6 )

[godbeast]

6th Polish [5] - 4% ain't that bad... but could be alot better, since languages based on pascal syntax were extremly popular in Poland. There are certainly more than 5 people in FPC polish forum. Greetz to Russians

[tanffn]

In Israel I find my self defending Delphi repeatedly, usually to “experts” that never even used it.
What is the Delphi “luxury” status in your country?

[godbeast]

Well it's hard to say. Many people still stick to the old Turbo Pascal, but the tendension is to switch to "something" newwer. Delphi books are very common, second place after C++, so a great number of people choose Delphi. If someone says that can code and it's not any net language then it'll probably be object pascal or just TP. If it's about commercial side, most of small software firms choose to pay for Borland's Delphi, this is for programs like bureau managment, sales databases etc.

For example, me I have so-so Delphi knowledge, but I've been sitting in Turbo Pascal since I had my first computer. Therefore, I switched to FPC and I'm really satisfied with it. And I'm sure there are more people who went that way.

If it's about oop - cpp, I think that cpp is more popular among younger folks who are just getting started. However pascal is "sometimes" taught in schools.

Ofcourse there are discusions like you mentioned, but in my opinion, sides are about fifty-fifty

[WILL]

I think part of the problem is that some of those "experts" are Pascal programmers too. :lol:

There is a lot of myth and misinformation about Object Pascal... such as that it's called Delphi, just because some wacko in Borland decided to rename the company Inprise and change the name again to Kylix...

But before I get on a 'Borland screwing up what it started rant', I think that it's important for the story to get around tothe more influential people. You know the ones that they cannot dispute simply because this is where they are getting their knowlage from in the first place. Yup, schools!

Personally though I think sites like Wikipedia and sites/forums with uninformed staff/contributers only hurt the public opinion of Object Pascal. Some countries generally get it, but then again they don't have the polulation saturation that ones like Canada and the US do.


What is it about the human race in that the greater the population the lower percentage of intelligence people?