Crustacean of Bethany

Crustacean of Bethany is a prospective project to create a partial Gambas (BASIC) to Lazarus (FreePascal) converter tool, and vice versa. The name is an amalgam of wikipedia:Crustacean (from gambas, which means prawns) and Lazarus of Bethany (the Biblical figure supposedly resurrected by Jesus Christ). This would limitedly allow the usage of the powerful Gambas integrated development environment (IDE) for the creation of Free Pascal programs, which are also cross-platform as opposed to Gambas' restriction to Unix-like systems. Development is intended to be incremental and bottom-up, with individual features ported over bit by bit as Graham Wilson learns how to use Lazarus.

Syntax Differences

 * uses, type, var, and procedures must be defined in header
 * ' becomes //
 * ; appended at the end of code lines

Components
LCL Components - gb.gui / gb.qt4


 * TFrom - Form
 * Dialog - Message
 * TButton - Button
 * TLabel - Label
 * Cursor - Cursor