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[Jürgen Hestermann]

Am 2013-12-28 14:09, schrieb Florian Klämpfl:
 > The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting
 > usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches
 > delphi leaves open.

What niches?
It seems you want a possibly exact clone so where are niches?
And what is the reason behind this?
Just use Delphi then.


 > GPC proved your argumentation wrong. GPC took the "clean way" of
 > extended pascal (you always complain about fpc's dyn. arrays. Just use
 > GPC, it has the clean solution)

I don't know GPC so I can't comment on this.
But I never complained about dynamic arrays (I use them as often as possible)
I complained about their syntax (automatic dereferencing on indexing).


 > Unfortuntaly GPC development stopped for
 > years due to missing contributors.

And the reason is that is was not enough Delphi compatible?


 > The people keeping FPC alive are
 > those interested in Delphi compatibility.

That seems to be the bottom line which makes any discussion useless.
Don't write any opinions anymore they will be ignored anyway.
All those who don't like the current developement should role their own.
Let's split Pascal into hundreds of dialects instead of striving for an universal one.
At least an honest statement.