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

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On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 8:56 AM, Jürgen Hestermann
<juergen.hestermann at gmx.de> wrote:
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> Am 2013-03-01 04:41, schrieb dmitry boyarintsev:
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>> 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.

+1

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