[fpc-pascal] Does FPC 2.8.0 can actually still be called Pascal ?

[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2013-03-01 04:41, schrieb dmitry boyarintsev:
> All the new "strange" features doesn't really matter as long as:
> 1) the backward compatibility is in place (and or guidelines are given
> how to make the code compatible with minimal efforts)
> 2) executable size doesn't suffer much ;)
> 3) the new target is supported and the existing code can be applied to it.
>
>
The problem with this is that you cannot read code written by others anymore
unless you learn *all* details about the large number of added "features".
And that's meanwhile like learning 2-3 other languagues and no longer
the easy to learn Pascal of earlier times.