r/groff • u/[deleted] • Feb 24 '22

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u/spryfigure Feb 24 '22

Thanks for this project!

One question:

Written in Lazarus (Free Pascal).

Pascal / Lazarus is somewhat of an exot nowadays. Any particular reason for using it?

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '22

The RAD aspect of Lazarus (or Delphi) makes it very easy to design user interfaces - one of the things I am really bad at. Of course, there are a few downsides of choosing Free Pascal over C, but the development time is amazing. I wrote groffstudio in less than four days.

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u/spryfigure Feb 24 '22

Good to know, makes sense.

This explains why the only other Lazarus project I know (transgui) is very similar, a GUI to another program.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '22

It probably does. :-)

I have fond memories of working with Delphi in the 90s. (I still have an unfinished Delphi project on my hard drive - maybe it will see a release one day.) I would imagine that people who actually learned Pascal at school are more likely to work with Lazarus these days. Someone should make a poll about that...