Micha Nelissen wrote: > Hi all, > > http://www.freepascal.org/wiki/index.php/Why_to_use_Pascal > > "Most of the developing time spent in Pascal is on the program itself. > Unlike C and C++ like language, the developer does not need to focus on > managing the memory of variables, the structure of very simple things > like passing parameters and returning them back again." > > You don't need to manage memory of the string and dynamic array types, > but of all others, GetMem, classtypes.Create you do; this paragraph is > misleading, incomplete, and/or inaccurate ;-). > > "That is why Pascal developers do not need to learn a new sub-language > inside the same language, like C++ STL, MFC and other sub languages > inside C and C++." > > This is also not really true, depending on the definition of a > sub-language. STL/MFC are libraries not languages, and one needs to > learn RTL/FCL/LCL/whatever you want to work with anyway. Might be easier > but has not really got anything to do with the language Pascal itself. > > Good points of pascal are the strong typing and the readability focus, > plus fpc's goal to keep language feature additions to a minimum, ie. > they really have to add something substantial and not save only some > typing. These things are missing on the page. > > (I've also put this in discussion part of wiki, do authors of pages look > there?). >
No idea, feel free to fix the article :) _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
