In our previous episode, Alexander Klenin said: > > Simple, straightforward. > > > Allow me to yet again to single out this philosophy of > strongly preferring abstract purity to concrete user experience. > This is IMHO a significant contributing factor of Pascal decline.
No. Not having something that creates new users is the main reason. IN-OUT<0 In general, the assumption that the popularity of a development product is mainly dependent on language is already faulty. > I would not argue this specific point (although I quite agree with Ondrej), > I just want to remind that the cost in terms of diminishing userbase > is real, and that makes me sad. I'm with Michael. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel