[fpc-devel] Pascal to Java compiler

[Florian Klaempfl]

Florian Klaempfl schrieb:
> Alexander Klenin schrieb:
>> On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 22:15, Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>> Alexander Klenin schrieb:
>>>> partially implemented, so I believe current functionality is not enough yet
>>>> to create anything competitive with the STL.
>>>>
>>> Did you ever try to debug STL based programs even with a in this regard
>>> good debugger?
>> I did, and it was not very pleasant, but Lazarus+gdb is not (yet?) any
>> better even
>> _without_ generics, so, unfortunately, there is no win for FPC there.
>>
> 
> Indeed, but with the STL it's a fundamental problem while things like
> good dyn. arrays debugging would require only a debugger implementing
> dwarf fully.

Add: Not to mention the poor readability of STL code. I write a lot of
STL code and often I've trouble to read my own code.