[fpc-pascal] Does FPC 2.8.0 can actually still be called Pascal ?

Sven Barth pascaldragon at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 28 11:20:02 CET 2013


On 28.02.2013 11:18, Michael Fuchs wrote:
> Am 28.02.2013 10:56, schrieb Sven Barth:
>> [...] Features like type inference, duck
>> typing, aspect oriented programming and traits. By implementing them we
>> can attract developers which got used to such features and swear that
>> they can simplyfy work.
>
> But there should be a line that nobody will cross.
> Otherwise someday someone try to attract PHP developers with removing
> the type safety from Free Pascal. *shudder*

I can guarantee you that *I* won't be the one who will cross that line ;)
Type safety is one of the main features of Pascal based languages and 
without that it would definitely not be Pascal any longer ^^

Regards,
Sven




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