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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Il 17/07/2018 23:40, Tomas Hajny ha
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<pre wrap="">Indeed - please, everybody make sure to keep the discussion on this list
on topic, this thread doesn't belong to this list.
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<p>You are perfectly right that the discussions on this list should
be kept on topic. But I don't agree that this thread is out of
place. It only has deviated from the core of the matter, as
suggested by my post.<br>
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<p>The purpose of my post was not to joke or to troll.<br>
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<p>My aim was to point out, by means of a paradoxical proposal, that
too many discussions suggest to transform fpc into something
completely different, a sort of hybrid thing, mixing up C++
features, Ada features, Java features and God knows what else.</p>
<p>I have not yet seen the proposal to get rid of begin/end and
replace it with indentation level, but it appears to be just a
matter of time!</p>
<p>In that case, however, it turned out that even the craziest idea
such as the <i>please</i> keyword wasn't new, but already present
in the INTERCAL language, and this led to some off-topic remarks.
You cannot think of anything crazy without discovering that
someone crazier than you has already implemented it!</p>
<p>However it remains that Pascal is a very good language, whose
clarity and self consistency require some small sacrifice. Too
many programmers do not realize that saving a bit of typing may
cost a lot in debugging and maintaining, and that what matters is
not the time spent in typing, but the total time from the
beginning, up to a fully debugged production ready program, which
can be maintained by other people as well.</p>
<p>Sorry for the extra noise generated, but the main point remains.
Please help to keep this list on its topic, which is to help users
to exploit Pascal at his best, to point bugs or things that can be
improved, and not to betray Pascal spirit.</p>
<p>Giuliano<br>
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Do not do to others as you would have them do to you.They might have different tastes.
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