[fpc-devel] Comparison FPC 2.6.2 - Delphi 7

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 02.03.2013 15:15, schrieb Craig Peterson:
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> On Mar 2, 2013, at 3:52 AM, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
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>> If you hire 2 painters to paint the whole of your house, and one
>> doesn't paint the inside, "because you don't see it from the
>> outside", of course he will be finished faster; he didn't perform
>> the same work.
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> Delphi is generating enough information that you can debug using it.
> The fact that its debugger is built in and FPC requires an external
> debugger that can't read the .ppus is an implementation detail.  A
> more apt comparison would be that we hired the painters to paint the
> outside of the house and one of them did the inside too because his
> tools require him to paint both sides of the walls.
>

While the other one can paint only in one color and only buildings with 
one floor ;)