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

[Martin Schreiber]

Am 01.03.2013 07:56, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann:
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> 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.
>
Agreed 100%. I think this is a very important argument against to add 
not necessary extensions to the language.
I would try to unify existing features and make them "orthogonal" 
instead and move advanced tasks into libraries.

Martin