[ubuntu-za] [Petition to National Department of Basic Education] Re-evaluate the implementation plan for standardising to Delphi over Java

[Hilton Gibson]

Is this any good: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)

Just asking as a non programmer.

Cheers

hg


On 31 October 2013 19:40, Marius Kruger <amanic at gmail.com> wrote:

> Posting to the ubuntu community who also expressed concerns..
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Alen Ribic <alen.ribic at gmail.com>
> Date: 31 October 2013 16:19
> Subject: [Petition to National Department of Basic Education] Re-evaluate
> the implementation plan for standardising to Delphi over Java
> To: jozijug at googlegroups.com
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> This past Tuesday, I met in person with Deputy Minister Enver Surty
> regarding the implementation plans to standardise to Delphi over Java with
> respect to Basic Education.
> A number of people and myself, from both the industry
> and academic setting, have studied the document entitled "IMPLEMENTATION
> PLAN FOR STANDARDISING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR
> 2015" [1]. This document was put forward by the Department of Basic
> Education in response to the criticism they received in the media.* *Study
> of the document shows that the rationale behind the standardisation to
> Delphi is flawed in several aspects.
>
> What I'm proposing here, and asking for, is support in calling for the
> National Department of Education to action a re-evaluate process that would
> see a number of inaccuracies with respect to Java, the programming language
> and technology, be addressed in the revised document. We believe that
> these inaccuracies have had a significant effect on the final proposal
> which supports Delphi as the programming language of choice.
>
> You can support this "call to action" by signing the below petition.
>
> https://www.change.org/petitions/re-evaluate-the-implementation-plan-for-standardising-to-delphi-over-java
>
> Regards,
> -Alen Ribic
>
> [1]
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2146210/IT%20Tools%20Stadardisation%20Implementation%20Plan.pdf
>
>
>
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