[fpc-other] Goodbye, and thanks for the fishes

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

ik wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After too much thinking I'ved decided to leave here.
> I don't know if this is permanent or not, but I can't for now continue
> to be here.
> 
> I'ved wrote about it here:
> http://idkn.wordpress.com/2013/03/08/goodbye-pascal/
> 
> Goodbye and thanks for the fishes

We're sorry to see you go. However looking at your comments, I'd say 
that I feel under much less pressure to defend my use of Pascal than I 
did 25 years or so ago: unlike the situation then just about everybody 
has agreed that structured languages are vastly superior to 
BASIC/COBOL/FORTRAN and once you strip away the syntactic differences 
they have, to a very large extent, converged.

As somebody said a few days ago, if you don't want to use extensions to 
the underlying language- array constructors, class helpers and so on- 
you don't have to. And because the language is strongly-typed it's 
unusual for a coding error to match a recently-introduced construct "by 
accident".

But I suppose all this begs the question: if one decides not to use 
Object Pascal, what are the viable alternatives?

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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