On Wed, 26 Nov 2014, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Scott Little:   
      
    BF>    FreePascal still has a long way to go before they can even    
    BF> catch up with the Borland Pascal 7 level, and to even Delphi 2...?    
    BF> Nah, no way, sorry all Open Source fans out there.   
      
   i think you are sadly mistaken here... FPC and Lazarus are very compatible   
   with delphi stuff... they are a little behind but there's a reason for that...   
   in any case, you should take another look before throwing the baby out with   
   the bath water...   
      
   FWIW: i run trunk versions of both FPC and Lazarus... my Lazarus is built with   
   the FPC trunk, too... you really should look at it and maybe even follow the   
   mailing lists where a lot of development discussion goes on... especially   
   recent discussions among the FPC developers about character set support ;)   
      
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