> L505 wrote: > > > > I think this is poor marketing for FPC: telling people that size/bloat is > > not an > > issue. > > Then what good is FPC for us? FPC is a compiled language! The whole point > > of a > > compiled > > language, is to have SOME advantage over an interpreted language. What is > > this > > advantage, > > if not size/memory/footprint? I don't see any advantages. > > The memory footprint of a good interpreter is lower than that one of a > compiled program. Guess why a lot of programs in the 80s were written in > interpreted basic :) Only the bad design of most interpreters cause big > memory footprint.
There was also USCD pascal .. but people complained it was too slow? _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
