On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 12:59 PM, Ralf Quint <freedos...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/22/2018 4:19 AM, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 22 Jun 2018, Ryan Joseph wrote: >> >>> I want to do a pivot away from the macro stuff to ask another question. >>> Since I’ve wanted to contribute to the compiler for so long and I >>> finally have a little understanding I’d like to know if there’s anything >>> minor I could do, that isn’t offensive to the compiler team. >> >> <rant>It's not about the compiler team. It's about the integrity of a >> programming language, which doesn't matter these days a lot, when all >> languages turned into a feature race to provide the same broken concepts, >> but with slightly different syntax. Nevermind. I sometimes do not even >> understand how people did stuff for 50 years without >> TObjectClassAdvancedTemplateGenericRecordRTTI...</rant> > > +1 > It's not (only/just) what "the compiler team" wants. There are people > actually using the compiler. For real life purposes. > And a lot of what people are proposing, over and over again, are solutions > for problems that nobody has (in real life)...
+1 It is better to have a simple language with packages/libs to do the (real) job than a complex language that try doing anything that someone could imagine or want to do. Best regards, Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
