[fpc-pascal] FPImage and GetDataLineStart

[Sven Barth]

On 22.04.2011 16:51, Žilvinas Ledas wrote:
>
>
> On 2011-04-22 14:47, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be wrote:
>> On Fri, 22 Apr 2011, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>>> In our previous episode, michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be said:
>>>>> class for each storage type and deal with delegation overhead.
>>>>>
>>>>> I've complete understanding for the fact that generics are too
>>>>> early, but
>>>>> IMHO it is the long term solution. Anything else would be madness,
>>>>> or minor
>>>>> damage control at best.
>>>>
>>>> Most of the more "recent" or "new" languages I know do not have
>>>> generics,
>>>
>>> What do you mean, C++,C#, Java ?
>>
>> No, they are "old" languages too. I was more thinking in terms of PHP,
>> Ruby, Python, Javascript (and its variations). I haven't come accross
>> generics for these languages. Yet they are widely adopted.
> I don't think that either group could be caller "newer":
>
> JAVA (1995): Sun Microsystems released the first public implementation
> as Java 1.0 in 1995 (James Gosling, Mike Sheridan, and Patrick Naughton
> initiated the Java language project in June 1991)
> C++ (~1980): It was developed by Bjarne Stroustrup starting in 1979 at
> Bell Labs as an enhancement to the C language and originally named C
> with Classes. It was renamed C++ in 1983.[3]
> C# (2000): By the time the .NET project was publicly announced at the
> July 2000 Professional Developers Conference, the language had been
> renamed C#, and the class libraries and ASP.NET runtime had been ported
> to C#.
>
> PHP (1995): PHP was originally created by Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995
> JavaScript (1995): LiveScript was the official name for the language
> when it first shipped in beta releases of Netscape Navigator 2.0 in
> September 1995, but it was renamed JavaScript in a joint announcement
> with Sun Microsystems on December 4, 1995
> Ruby (1990): Ruby originated in Japan during the mid-1990s and was first
> developed and designed by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto.
> Python (1980-89): Python was conceived in the late 1980s [8] and its
> implementation was started in December 1989[9] by Guido van Rossum at
> CWI in the Netherlands

At least the last two were news to me O.o

Regards,
Sven