On Friday 29 March 2013 10:53:04 Jürgen Hestermann wrote: > Am 2013-03-29 10:35, schrieb Sven Barth: > > We value backwards compatiblity very high and this is part of it, no > > matter whether these c-like operators are considered good or bad... > > But that's not the point here. The problem has nothing to do with backward > compatibility. Just the opposite. If you incorporate each and every > "feature" from any other language then you no longer have Pascal. The end > would be that you can write whatever language you want, the compiler will > understand it. This may look like a benefit but after all you cannot be > sure to understand source code written for this compiler anymore. It would > require learning all the many languages that exist within "Object Pascal". > To program nowadays it already requires a lot of other things to learn > (different OSs and interfaces). I see no need to add even more to that by > adding features over and over again. Pascal was successful because it was > easy and clear. Now it becomes complex and cluttered. > Agreed. It is propably time now to make an new attempt for an open source "Pascal-like" compiler which is not forced to follow Delphi and can learn from the pros and cons of Free Pascal without the ballast of backwards compatibility from 20 years.
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