On 20 feb 2007, at 19:46, Patrick Leslie Polzer wrote:
1) "No Makefiles"
...and yet you ship a Makefile generator with FPC. Why?
Because you cannot tell the compiler to compiler run time library,
then itself with the rtl that was just compiled, then recompile the
run time library with the newly compiled compiler, then itself with
the newly compiled compiler etc. fpcmake is a tool developed for
internal use, but everyone is free to use it. You don't strictly need
it except in complex cases like the above, though.
2) "Pascal compilers are Fast with a big F [...]"
Why is that?
Because you do not need a preprocessor pass, and compiled unit
interfaces can be reused much more often than e.g. C pre-compiled
headers because no external defines can influence them (and therefore
you also need much less checking to see whether or not a unit needs
to be recompiled).
3) "Great integration with assembler"
Is being able to use Assembler easily inline really that much
better as opposed to having the code in separate object files?
Personal preference.
4) "Smartlinking"
Ah, I think you can have that one in C with some obscure linker
flags, too.
Nowadays you can indeed, yes.
5) Why use Pascal instead of Ada?
Personal preference.
6) Can I have run-time range checking of arrays/strings and *still*
use functions that accept arrays of any length?
Yes.
Jonas
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