<div dir="auto"><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Steve Litt via fpc-pascal <<a href="mailto:fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org">fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org</a>> schrieb am Di., 31. Mai 2022, 04:12:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hairy Pixels via fpc-pascal said on Tue, 31 May 2022 08:39:20 +0700<br>> FPC is very good about keeping<br>
>new features behind mode switches you can disable all the cruft if you<br>
>ever want to create plain procedural Pascal like in the 80s. :)<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Since I still don't receive Ryan's mails I'll abuse this to reply:</div><div dir="auto">While you can restrict what you write yourself with modeswitches you still need to be able to understand other people's code which might enable modeswitches you're not familiar with. Thus modeswitches are *not* the be all, end all solution and the argument "but you don't need to use it" will be completely ignored by us. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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A truly great language would be Turbo Pascal 5.5 (with OOP) plus<br>
function/procedure references.<br></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Well, you can enable them in TP mode as well ;) </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Regards, </div><div dir="auto">Sven </div></div>