On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:12:11PM +0100, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> True. There is pretty much no point in that, since the Pascal standards are
> effectively dead. (Borland 99.9% marketshare)
Well, well... and who needs HTML standards when anybody uses Microsoft
products anyway... I hate that argument!!!
> > FreePascal supports just one dialect,
>
> FPC supports both BP as Delphi syntax.
Okay, then I say "the dialects of just one company".
> This is nonsense. Either one uses systemspecific extensions or not. This works
> for both FPC and GPC.
That's not what I said. I said GPC hasn't that much systemspecific
extentions.
That can be seen as disadvantage or as advantage.
> > What I really want would be a mixture of both!
>
> Then there is only one option. Work on either of them. Both projects
> have manpower shortage, the difference is how they handle that.
Well, may I port FPC units to GPC?
May I put them to their archive, even if no porting is necessary?
> GPC hardly knows any Delphi dialect features, and those are
> the strong point of FPC (most of the development in language after
> 1997 deals with Delphi extensions).
Well, I never worked with Delphi. So maybe GPC is really better for me.
BTW. the name FreeDelphi would fit better then.
> var i : integer = 0;
> in Delphi mode.
Okay, I've overseen that.
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Tschuess
Andreas
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