I was browsing some TP pages, and found this Pascal-compiler poll:

http://pub.alxnet.com/poll?id=1250146

FPC is already second, after TP :-)

(and third is Bloodshed........)

Marco van de Voort ( or )

The funny part is how -bad- GNU pascal is. I havn't gotten any remotely serious project to comile in GNU pascal, and yet they claim borland pascal compatibility. Their "compatibility" is so easily broken just by declaring a variable with a name that is reserved in C (since it apparently still reserves those in pascal), and that's just the start. It's amazing how broken it is, when I can get most of my programs to compile under Borland TP 7 for DOS, Pure Pascal for Atari, Free Pascal for Linux, and even Delphi on windows (which lacks CRT, etc.). Consider also that Virtual Pascal has only 2%, but that's for OS/2, and I'm sure it has most of the OS/2 pascal people (just that that's a smaller group). GNU pascal works on a lot more platforms than even Free Pascal. Obviously it is pretty bad if it still can't gain support. I myself would like to use it because I use Linux on Sparc, and there is no Free Pascal yet for Sparc, so I have really tried to get GPC to be usefull, I am not just bashing it here, but I challenge anyone else to port a large borland pascal type program to it. The [most recent] program I was trying to port was my matchup CGI, which can be found (as source) on atari-source.com, and also actually running ; The CGI
portion compiles only on Free Pascal at the moment, but the rest of it will compile on VP in OS/2, BP7 on DOS, Delphi, and Pure Pascal on Atari. The delphi took the most work (to fake out a CRT unit), and was still easy compared to trying to get anything to work under GNU Pascal.

- noah