[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

[noreply at z505.com]

On 2017-05-24 15:28, marcov at stack.nl wrote:
> In our previous episode, noreply at z505.com said:
>> 
>> How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and
>> not waste the entire day?
> 
> Avoid the following
> - long discussions about new features
>    -> design by committee was never successful anyway.

Except that all the Algol features designed by a committee are slipping 
their way into today's languages because people are smarter now and can 
actually implement the features on newer computers, whereas back in the 
1960's they were very limited... Think about this: all the languages now 
that have type inference or similar (GoLang has something where you 
don't have to declare variables but it's still strongly typed), and 
think about local scoop loop iterators which many languages have. 
Everyone that was a skeptic of committee designed languages didn't want 
these features in their language, so projects spun off such as AlgolW 
(wirth's small algol work) which became Pascal. But now adays all the 
old algol committee designed features are sneaking their way into 
everything... Not that this is necessarily a good thing I'm not sure, 
but we know Small languages like AlgolW/Standard Pascal failed due to 
not having enough work done on them by lots of folk (like a committee) 
but on the other hand large languages of today such as C++/Ada are 
mammoths

> - anything with "Schnell" and "unicode"
> - preferably anything with "huys" and 'git"  :-)
> 

Well you probably don't want to here my rants on Unicode as it's a mess 
and I don't have a solution, so possibly ignore all 505 unicode posts 
Haha.