Jamie McCracken wrote: > Florian Klaempfl wrote: > >> >> I'am a poor delphi programmer, didn't use it for years, but I bet with >> any >> python programmer that I create any application faster than him :) > > > You must be a damn fast typer then :)
I teached myself typing with 10 fingers, but typing is not the issue with auto completion etc. Show me a python ide which can do the same tricks as lazarus or delphi. >> The problem with pascal on linux was/is that there was no good >> compiler in the >> 90s for linux so a lot developers got lost. > > > Gnu pascal? We were talking about good :) > > >>> 1) Forward declarations - they sux! Why should the developers have the >>> burden of making the code totally sequential declaration wise. All other >>> modern compilers dont need this. >> >> >> >> C++ is still the number one language and it requires it. > > > yes but that aint modern! C# and python do not. Modern doesn't mean necessarily good ... >> Good performance like python ;)? > > > If that were the case then yeah it would sux (however pythons > performance is due to bien a bytecode interpreter and dynamic typing > neither of which we need in pascal). Ref. counting etc. eats time because you need good garbage collection to detect cycles and other ugly stuff. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel