Frankly, every new feature will be a mere increase of complexity if you reject learning about it.
There is a listing, despite not up-to-date, of new language features since Delphi 7, at <http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/34324>. Not all of them are currently implemented in FPC. Could you point out which of them is “nonsense” or “only saves some keystrokes”? On January 15, 2012, Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > > > Lars schrieb: >> Personally, I'm getting sick of all the new features added to delphi that >> don't add anything meaningful, and just add complexity to the compiler. >> why didn't borland just make people use old borland objects with methods >> instead of new advanced records? Old borland objects are advanced >> records.. >> >> Ticking me off more: why do we even have objects and classes? what is an >> object? what are classes? I would have preferred if borland would have >> just called old borland objects "Extended records" from day one. Now we >> have this feature overload in the language and it's becoming more and >> more >> complex of a language (needlessly). Objects, Classes, records.. aren't >> they all the same thing? I don't even personally buy the idea that >> objects >> even exist.. i think they are just extended records. What is an >> object? an >> instance of a class? if so, why did borland call the type definition >> "object" if it was supposed to be a class? Ugh. Ugly language - it is >> becoming - sorry to say! >> >> > I agree wholeheartly with you!! > > Lots of nonsense is added that is already available otherwise (or only > saves some keystrokes). > In the past Pascal was an easy to learn (still powerfull) language. > Today the direction goes > into increased complexity as all the other languages and nobody realy > understands it anymore > so programmers code in a suboptimal manner more and more. > > Some may say: You don't have to use it. That's true. But I am also no > longer able to read > foreign code (i.e. Lazarus program code) because all these strange > concepts are used there. > > > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal -- Best Regards, J.-c. Chu _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
