As I said in my introduction. I am new to Linux and FPC. I've used them both for maybe 8 years, but not seriously.
On the Linux side for years I've just used it for minimal compiling and a lot of web browser. On the FPC I've fired it up from time to time over the years (and read the website, mailing lists). None of that I consider real use, just casual poking around. But now I am taking a serious stab at porting my Windows OpenGL game engine to a cross platform Windows, Linux, and Mac engine. I feel like I am actually doing something real with Linux and FPC for the first time. One thing I've noticed about the FPC community which has me a somewhat apprehensive is a bit of a particular attitude I've picked up on. A few times now I've read comments by or had conversations with people in the FPC community who have explained incompatibilities away using the phrase: "FreePascal did this before something else so we shouldn't change" Forgetting the whole argument about who was actually first, I have to ask what difference does it make? Why does doing something first make it written in stone. It seems a bit childish to say, "No way, I way here first, I won't budge. You move." Really, that attitude is quite the turn off. There there these incompatibilities causing me to avoid language features. I'd like to use them but just won't (Operator overloading and generics come to mind), mostly because I really don't want to have ifdefs all over the place. In my opinion, there is an incompatibility. Fix it. On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Jonas Maebe <jonas.ma...@elis.ugent.be> wrote: > > On 16 Nov 2009, at 15:01, Anthony Walter wrote: > >> Jonas, why is FPC emulating C when it could simply follow the Delphi >> way and prevent these incompatibilities? > > I think that FPC's behaviour predates the existence of Delphi. > > > Jonas > _______________________________________________ > fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pas...@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal > _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
