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Hi,<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I totally agree that available libraries
like the above are what attract (or keep existing) users to
Pascal, not some minor syntactical sugar.
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But syntax features attract the library developers that will write
those attractive libraries<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Benito </div>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 25.04.2018 16:27, Dennis wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:afc5ebc9-4446-7db4-e0e1-b0ceb5e7c52e@avidsoft.com.hk">
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<br>
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">
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I want the same for pascal.
<br>
<br>
But I really still need to see convincing evidence that language
features contribute to productivity.
<br>
<br>
Available libraries for common programming tasks - and I mean
this on a high-level
<br>
level - are infinitely more important, so I don't need to get
down to the
<br>
gory details of many tasks:
<br>
<br>
* Creating a PDF. * Creating a good-looking report from Data. *
Have an API that reads google protocol data.
<br>
* A good ORM/OPF.
<br>
* Reading a smartcard.
<br>
* Access a Google,Facebook,Twitter, MS or what-have-you-not REST
API. * A wizard that makes a Data entry form based on a TDataset
or object.
<br>
* Classes to make a REST API.
<br>
* Classes to make/consume a SOAP service.
<br>
* Code that transforms a JSON structure to object classes plus
the code to
<br>
* read/write the JSON.
<br>
<br>
These are things that make me win time.
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I totally agree that available libraries like the above are what
attract (or keep existing) users to Pascal, not some minor
syntactical sugar.
<br>
E.g.
<br>
people new to AI will learn python just because there are ready
libraries in AI callable by python.
<br>
People new to statistics will learn R just because there are
ready libraries of statistics in R.
<br>
People new to iOS will learn swift because it allows them easily
call all the libraries of iOS, not because swift is better than
Pascal or Java.
<br>
<br>
It is about convenience.
<br>
<br>
Dennis
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