[fpc-other] Re: [fpc-pascal] Pascal dialect -- was: Re: fpc-pascal Digest, Vol 72, Issue 12

[Graeme Geldenhuys]

On 4 June 2010 19:51, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>
> As I said in the mail you replied to (first paragraph I wrote): FPC and Delphi
> are part of the same ecosystem. If you keep looking at it as if it is about
> "us versus them", you will probably remain unhappy forever with how
> FPC evolves, because it will always seem as if we are doing various things
>  out of servitude to Embarcadero and its horde of evil Delphi users.

Maybe you haven't noticed, but neither Borland, CodeGear or now
Embarcadero gives a toss about Free Pascal. They see it as a
competitive compiler, hence the reason they are getting there act
together now, and implementing missing feature. Also why they are
implementing their own versions of a cross-platform compiler, instead
of working with Free Pascal and reusing it for non-Windows platforms.

There is *no* relationship between Embarcadero and Free Pascal. The
FPC core team might think otherwise, but they are the only ones that
think that.

If there was any relationship between the two compilers, then
Embarcadero (f**k I hate that long name) could very easily have
implemented Generics in the syntax FPC came up with first, but no,
they had to break the compatibility - for their gain, so FPC needs to
play catch-up again or be told they are incompatible. Generics is just
one such example.

You are living a dream if you think they care about FPC, so why the
hell care about them. FPC is a good product, you don't need Delphi (or
delphi compatibility) when you have FPC.


-- 
Regards,
  - Graeme -


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