[fpc-devel] type discussion

[Micha Nelissen]

On Thu, 02 Jun 2005 14:22:55 +0100
Jamie McCracken <jamie-junk at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> > In terms of _written_ or in terms of _working_ lines of code? :->
> 
> Dont kid yourself - a lot of my fellow Delphi programmers have dumped it 
> for C# already so it is really worrying for me espcially with borland 

C# is very much like delphi, not at all like Python. What were their reasons to switch ?

Python is hard to read, especially if multiple blocks are closed at once, then it's hard to see what block a line belongs to (because of missing 'end' or '}').

I also don't like the magic. For example the 'mystrings.create;' example you mentioned, it's *totally* not consistent with regular syntax: mystrings.create means call "TStringList.Create" on the object pointed to by the mystrings variable.

Micha