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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/21/2018 1:43 PM, Ben Grasset
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<div>Shouldn't the attribute tags just be put wherever it's
easiest for the compiler to deal with them?</div>
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That would be bending the language to fit the implementation, when
it should be the other way around.<br>
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<div>I think the vast majority of people care far more about
how<span> </span><i>useful<span> </span>Pascal actually is
in real life</i><span> </span>than they do</div>
<div>about whether or not it fulfills some not-well-defined
notion of "spirit". </div>
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Not me. No computer language is a one-size-fits-all solution, nor
should it be - though we have several languages to choose from that
are trying to be.<br>
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<div>Also, as far as I can tell, most of the people who use
FPC would consider the Delphi way to be the correct or
normal way of doing things in the first place.</div>
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Again, not me. Several Delphi features were rushed to meet a
release deadline and were not well thought out.<br>
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