On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 22:33, Florian Klaempfl <[email protected]> wrote: > Am 20.10.2010 12:27, schrieb Alexander Klenin: >> >> This sub-thread was started by mentioning the series of errors >> my student made when trying to implement case of string. >> Most of them was due to the fact the code used pchars and records >> instead of strings and (hierarchy of) objects. >> Surely, a more qualified developer would probably have avoided these, >> but still I think this is a good demonstration of adverse side-effects >> of micro-optimizations. > > FPC is a production compiler and not an educational project. See > Martin's email, people care about the speed of FPC.
Surely I did not imply that lowering barrier for entry should be the primary goal of the FPC project (although that would be a nice side-effect). I meant to demonstrate that the current code structure encourages failure, which, of course, may be overcome with enough effort by highly-qualified developer. -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
