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

[ik]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:11 PM, ik <idokan at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
> <juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am 2013-03-01 04:41, schrieb dmitry boyarintsev:
>>
>>> All the new "strange" features doesn't really matter as long as:
>>> 1) the backward compatibility is in place (and or guidelines are given
>>> how to make the code compatible with minimal efforts)
>>> 2) executable size doesn't suffer much ;)
>>> 3) the new target is supported and the existing code can be applied to it.
>>>
>>>
>> The problem with this is that you cannot read code written by others anymore
>> unless you learn *all* details about the large number of added "features".
>> And that's meanwhile like learning 2-3 other languagues and no longer
>> the easy to learn Pascal of earlier times.
>
> +1

People at Delphi are unwilling to call themselves Pascal developers
(Or Object Pascal), but Delphi developers, now I understand the lack
of cooperation that the FPC developers talk about.

But if Delphi devs, does not wish to see themselves as Pascal
developers, then how does FPC implementing Delphi dialect can help ?
Or is it just a core group of people ?

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