[fpc-pascal] Pascal is alive!!??

[Daniël Mantione]

Op Sun, 25 Feb 2007, schreef Michael Van Canneyt:

> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007, Tom Verhoeff wrote:
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> > To round this off: we are overhauling our CS curriculum, and fortunately
> > there is a small core of Pascal supporters.  Personally, I favor
> > FPC/Lazarus, some others still believe in Delphi.  Maybe we will
> > produce some new Pascal material that could find wider usage.  (Food
> > for another thread.)
> > =

> > To summarize the needs:
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> >   *  Tools: contest-friendly IDE; STL-like library
> =

> What do you need from STL ? What is lacking ? =

> =

> I program daily and, disregarding GUI classes, all classes I ever needed =
are =

> in the FCL.
> =

> So please elaborate. You can assume (correctly) that I don't know anything
> about the STL other than that it's a "standard template library". =

> (which - to me - sounds like something an offset-printer would use ;) )
> =

> So a list of classes and what they are supposed to do would be nice.

It is not that the FCL is lacking, the STL simply allows template =

programming, i.e. you can simply declar a linked list of a random object =

and use a for loop to iterate over them. Now the FCL certainly has a =

linked list, but is a different way of programming: declaring inherited =

classes, calling the foreach method to call helpers, etc...

Perhaps the fgl will satisfy Tom's needs, but I'm a bit sceptical. The FCL =

is there, you are just not allowed to use it in contests...

Dani=EBl