[Lazarus] Why the Java became so strong?

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> On 26 February 2012 10:31, Mark Morgan Lloyd  wrote:> used as a system programming language. My own experience indicates that as> soon as you start using a 4GL or similar for anything that the implementors> didn't think of you're in very deep water.
> 
> I guess in my 5 years of Turbo Pascal and 15 years of ObjectPascal/Delphi, I haven't stepped in deep water yet. Or I was verylucky, or I simply found alternative programming solutions for all my"deep water" problems. :-)

Wrong end of stick, Graeme. I meant that the traditional BASICs and 4GLs 
got hairy very fast as soon as you attempted to do anything out of the 
ordinary, I hoped that my

 >> Object Pascal differs [...] it's arguably complete enough that it can
 >> be used as a system programming language

was sufficiently unambiguous.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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