Florian Klämpfl schrieb:
> Am 06.11.2011 15:13, schrieb dmitry boyarintsev:
>> Hi-jacking, the thread, and again should FPC chase Delphi forever?
> You mix here result and goal. If FPC supports new Delphi constructs
> depends on the fact if somebody provides a patch. No more, no less.
I have the same feeling as Dmitry: There must be a time when FPC does
not run after Delphi. Why not now? Other changes were rejected too.
> Just as an example: if somebody provides patches to support Extended
> Pascal, FPC will support Extended Pascal, nobody did so in >15 years.
> Result: FPC supports no Extended Pascal features.
Actually the question is: *If* someone is investing time into something
is this a useful investment? Or wouldn't it be be better to invest this
time into other things, i.e. bug fixes?
Also, implementing all existing language constructs from all other
languages into Pascal makes it a monster that no one can handle anymore.
Supporting Delphi code sounds good in the first place but in the end it
bloats the language to something completely different than was intended.
The reasons for the success of Pascal were simplicity and clarity. But
now it going into the opposite direction. Introducing new constructs
over and over again does not make a language easier to use, just the
opposite.
Someone who starts programming in Pascal today has the same (or even
worse) learning curve than for all other languages. That is not good IMO.
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