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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">    Looks like I sparked quite a bit of
      interest! Perhaps we could work on a Standard instead of just on
      the Compiler itself? This gives people more of a look on what
      'could' happen, instead of a Wiki where everyone can just edit.  A
      system where voting is necessary, just like Standards from W3C,
      Khronos, etc, etc. A mailing list where people debate endlessly is
      not productive; we could have had a # of votes to see what
      should/should not be implemented, instead of a few key members
      deeming what's 'pascalish' or not. You may create that fork/branch
      now, but who knows who will actually end up merging it in? If they
      ever do. This is why we need a standard, so that there is NO
      wasted work, and people can get experience implementing things
      that are well documented first and know how they should act.<br>
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      <b>Plan first, Then Code</b>: I believe was said? ;) <br>
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      Then let us plan a standard, and what each feature should do, <b>then
        code</b>.<br>
      I hope there is enough rally for this to happen!<br>
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      - Dennis Fehr<br>
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      On 2015-07-24 02:29 AM, Maciej Izak wrote:<br>
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          <div class="gmail_quote">2015-07-23 11:22 GMT+02:00 Michael
            Van Canneyt <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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                  The most convenient technological argument is
                  compatibility with Oxygene.<br>
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              Well, that's a political argument, I think: we can choose
              to be not compatible with Oxygene :)<br>
              (whether or not this would constitute suicide or not, is
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            <div>To start any work on this I need to provide a few more
              patches related to Delphi compatibility. I would like to
              return to the subject in near future.<br>
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                  The rest is in many cases a matter of taste. We can
                  endlessly debate what<br>
                  is more readable :)<br>
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              Good. Now you're talking sense :)<br>
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              I look forward to your contributions!<br>
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            <div>Nice to hear that. So I guess I don't need any fork
              ;) phew!</div>
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              <div>Best regards,<br>
                Maciej Izak</div>
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