<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is this any good: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)" style="font-family:arial">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_(IDE)</a></div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Just asking as a non programmer.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Cheers</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
hg</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 October 2013 19:40, Marius Kruger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amanic@gmail.com" target="_blank">amanic@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Posting to the ubuntu community who also expressed concerns..</div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>
From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Alen Ribic</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alen.ribic@gmail.com" target="_blank">alen.ribic@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: 31 October 2013 16:19<br>Subject: [Petition to National Department of Basic Education] Re-evaluate the implementation plan for standardising to Delphi over Java<br>To: <a href="mailto:jozijug@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">jozijug@googlegroups.com</a><br>
<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div><div>This past Tuesday, I met in person with <span style="line-height:18px">Deputy Minister Enver Surty regarding the implementation plans to standardise to Delphi over Java with respect to Basic Education.</span></div>
<div><span style="line-height:18px">A number of people and myself, from both the industry and academic setting, have studied the document entitled "</span><span style="line-height:18px">IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR STANDARDISING PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR 2015</span><span style="line-height:18px">" [1]. This document was put forward by the Department of Basic Education in response to the </span><span style="line-height:18px">criticism they received in the media.</span><b style="line-height:18px"> </b><span style="line-height:18px">Study of the document shows that the rationale behind the standardisation to Delphi is flawed in several aspects.</span></div>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>You can support this "call to action" by signing the below petition.<br><a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/re-evaluate-the-implementation-plan-for-standardising-to-delphi-over-java" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/petitions/re-evaluate-the-implementation-plan-for-standardising-to-delphi-over-java</a><br>
</p><p>Regards,<br>-Alen Ribic</p><p>[1] <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2146210/IT%20Tools%20Stadardisation%20Implementation%20Plan.pdf" target="_blank">https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2146210/IT%20Tools%20Stadardisation%20Implementation%20Plan.pdf</a></p>
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