Modern Forms
Though SWAG itself has stopped updating, a number of its equivalents are still available and made good use of today.
There are many websites offering source code, sample programs written in pure Pascal, Object Pascal or Delphi, many of whom provide huge libraries of VCL components licensed in many forms, since Delphi is the most widely used development tool in the modern Pascal/Object Pascal community.
Semi-homemade discs containing similar contents have been sold in China and were popular in the early 2000s. However, such discs are now rarely sold probably due to the popularization of internet.
With the development of Free Pascal and Lazarus, and the introduction of their Free Component Library (FCL) and Lazarus Component Library (LCL), FCL- and LCL-oriented components are also steadily growing.
Read more about this topic: Sourceware Archive Group
Famous quotes containing the words modern and/or forms:
“We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with the lives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)
“When we speak the word “life,” it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.”
—Antonin Artaud (1896–1948)