<p>Am 19.07.2015 23:43 schrieb "Ralf Quint" <<a href="mailto:freedos.la@gmail.com">freedos.la@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
> Now today, I do not necessarily agree with the direction Embarcadero heading these days with Delphi and most importantly (for me), I do not agree with all those attempts to add "features" of other languages to Free Pascal. I appreciate the efforts of the folks involved in Free Pascal for a long time, as this provides me with the opportunity to keep working in the programming language/environment that for me makes the most sense and that I am used to for 38 years. And I honestly loath to see that people argue that there should be new language constructs and such, just because it is what more popular programming languages provide. I am not in to participate in a popularity contest, I am trying to get work done...</p>
<p>The way we write software evolves however. Things that were thought as state of the art 25 years ago aren't necessarily nowadays (for example procedural programming that has been mostly superseded by object oriented programming). And in this regards programming languages are like natural languages: they evolve, they change. If a language doesn't evolve anymore it can be considered dead (e.g. Latin, Ancient Greek).<br>
So I personally support the addition of new features to FPC as long as they don't interfere with backwards compatibility and fit into the language as a whole.</p>
<p>Regards,<br>
Sven</p>