On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Anthony Walter wrote:
This is because Delphi belongs to is a commercial enterprise, and it
is in their best interested not to bend over backwards to work with a
free competing product.
The power I felt FPC has had was it's compatibility with Delphi. FPC
maintained compatibility with the languages and even with the class
library (SysUtils.pas, Classes.pas).
I understand it's difficult to maintain this parity between FPC and
Delphi, especially when Delphi does things which seem wrong (such as
they way they implemented operator overloading), but IMO keeping that
parity goes is more important than ego (if that is where the problem
really lays).
Ego is not the problem. Time is, as Jonas pointed out.
My observations were purely from a more philosophical point of view;
In general we try to be Delphi compatible as much as time and
backward compatibility permits.
Michael.
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