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[Florian Klämpfl]

Am 28.12.2013 13:02, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Florian Klämpfl <florian at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> Am 28.12.2013 11:01, schrieb Marcos Douglas:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> So, if the companies prefer to rewrite everything to another language,
>>> this is another prove that people do not want compatibility with
>>> Delphi (so much).
>>
>> And you think they would switch instead to some marginal OSS language
>> which is compatible to nothing and nobody knows? C# and Java are used
>> because they provide a huge user base (user in the sense of programmers
>> knowing it) and being developed by huge companies so people expect their
>> code base has a future.
> 
> I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java
> instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If
> they care, why they would be leaving Delphi?

If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a
marginal oss compiler.