[fpc-pascal] another fpc RAD: MSEide

[L505]

> L505 wrote:
> >
> > I think this is poor marketing for FPC: telling people that size/bloat is not an
> > issue.
> > Then what good is FPC for us? FPC is a compiled language! The whole point of a
> > compiled
> > language, is to have SOME advantage over an interpreted language. What is this
> > advantage,
> > if not size/memory/footprint? I don't see any advantages.
>
> The memory footprint of a good interpreter is lower than that one of a
> compiled program. Guess why a lot of programs in the 80s were written in
> interpreted basic :) Only the bad design of most interpreters cause big
> memory footprint.

There was also USCD pascal .. but people complained it was too slow?