[fpc-pascal] OT: Rename for Pascal

[Jonas Maebe]

On 12 Aug 2007, at 19:30, ik wrote:

> So I believe that  if we will change the name, it might help. What do
> you think ?

I think it will have very little effect. Just look at D: it's a lot  
like C (so the C crowd isn't immediately put off by it), it has a  
"non-offensive" name, it's quite powerful, fixes a lot of C  
deficiencies, is OOP and yet it's not particularly popular.

It's silly to change the name, especially because the language  
actually is Object Pascal. Next, we'd have to remove begin/end (that  
reminds too much of Pascal), allow a semi-colon before "else" (it's  
typically Pascal that this is not allowed), etc. It's a waste of effort.


Jonas