[fpc-devel] weak referencing (was Suggestion:.....)

[Nikolay Nikolov]

On 09/23/2014 03:55 AM, Boian Mitov wrote:
> Because none of those is a strong typed language.
> Each language has weak and strong points.
> Pascal is semi strong typed language, and as such is very well 
> declarative style oriented.
> Functional programming however merges very well with strong typed 
> declarations actually getting us closer to the holly grail for pure 
> declarative programming.
> Those other languages you mentioned don’t do that.
> The closest to perfection nowadays is probably C++11 but it also is 
> not without flows, mainly practically total lack of RTTI.
> What I am saying is that Delphi, C++ with C++11, Java, and C# have all 
> been inching toward the goal of a perfect language, while FPC has not.
That's because most people who complaining about the lack of these 
features, don't do any work to implement them and submit patches.

Nikolay
>
> With best regards,
> Boian Mitov
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> -----Original Message----- From: John Briggs
> Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 5:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] weak referencing (was Suggestion:.....)
>
> Why has there been so many messages on this list debating the pros and 
> cons
> of reference counting objects?
> The beauty of the Pascal language is in its structure ie:
> procedures,functions,OOP. Why does it need to be a functional programming
> language as well when there are Haskell, Lisp, Scheme and other 
> functional
> languages that have already done the hard work.
>
>
> John
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