Op 2010-06-04 12:54, spir het geskryf: > (including choices of non-implementation), so why not having already > made the step of declaring fpc a (object) Pascal dialect of its own?
I agree 100%. It was all good and well (in the beginning) to try and be a Delphi clone, but now it makes no real sense to me. FPC (or Lazarus IDE or Lazarus LCL) will never, ever be 100% compatible with Delphi. You will also never be able to simply swap out delphi and replace it with FPC and recompile. Developers will always have to go through a porting process - a fact of life. And if FPC's only goal is to be a Delphi clone, then soon they are going to be out of business - why? Because Embarcadero is already working on a cross-platform compiler (the biggest advantage FPC has(had) over Delphi) and a 64-bit compiler. Embedded systems will be the only advantage FPC then has over Delphi - and this is a small percentage of FPC users. But we all know, many others will disagree with us - saying that staying a clone and always one step behind is good. :) Regards, - Graeme - -- fpGUI Toolkit - a cross-platform GUI toolkit using Free Pascal http://opensoft.homeip.net/fpgui/ _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
