On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Jürgen Hestermann <juergen.hesterm...@gmx.de> 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.
+1 Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
