[fpc-pascal] Stack alias for ARC like memory management?

[Benito van der Zander]

Hi,

> I totally agree that available libraries like the above are what 
> attract (or keep existing) users to Pascal, not some minor 
> syntactical  sugar.

But syntax features attract the library developers that will write those 
attractive libraries


Cheers,
Benito



On 25.04.2018 16:27, Dennis wrote:
>
>
> Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>
>> I want the same for pascal.
>>
>> But I really still need to see convincing evidence that language 
>> features contribute to productivity.
>>
>> Available libraries for common programming tasks - and I mean this on 
>> a high-level
>> level - are infinitely more important, so I don't need to get down to 
>> the
>> gory details of many tasks:
>>
>> * Creating a PDF. * Creating a good-looking report from Data. * Have 
>> an API that reads google protocol data.
>> * A good ORM/OPF.
>> * Reading a smartcard.
>> * Access a Google,Facebook,Twitter, MS or what-have-you-not REST API. 
>> * A wizard that makes a Data entry form based on a TDataset or object.
>> * Classes to make a REST API.
>> * Classes to make/consume a SOAP service.
>> * Code that transforms a JSON structure to object classes plus the 
>> code to
>> * read/write the JSON.
>>
>> These are things that make me win time.
>>
> I totally agree that available libraries like the above are what 
> attract (or keep existing) users to Pascal, not some minor 
> syntactical  sugar.
> E.g.
>   people new to AI will learn python just because there are ready 
> libraries in AI callable by python.
>   People new to statistics will learn R just because there are ready 
> libraries of statistics in R.
>   People new to iOS will learn swift because it allows them easily 
> call all the libraries of iOS, not because swift is better than Pascal 
> or Java.
>
> It is about convenience.
>
> Dennis
>
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