[fpc-pascal] Object pascal a "Modern Language"

[Micha Nelissen]

On Fri, 3 Mar 2006 18:28:40 +0100 (Romance Standard Time)
Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:

> Most people out there probably think of Pascal as still being in
> the state it was in when Niklaus Wirth first designed it.
> 
> Object Pascal to date is fully OOP, and misses nothing that C#, C++
> or Java has: Interfaces, Exceptions, Classes: you name it, Object
> Pascal has it.

That's simply not true. C++ has multiple inheritance, templates, classes
in shared libraries; all things which FPC does not have. FPC does have
metaclasstypes (and virtual constructors) in the OO area, which C++ does
not have.

I do consider FPC to be a modern language, FYI ;-).

Micha