In our previous episode, Matt Emson said: > Marco van de Voort wrote: > > IMHO Prism is not even Delphi. Just recycling of the brand. > > Laying cards on the proverbial table, I don't think it was ever intended > to be Delphi. RemObjects developed the compiler completely outside of > Delphi for a number of years before the technology was licensed to > become Prism. Fact. IIRC, they billed "Chrome" (then Oxygen) as a > Pascal-like syntax refined for the .Net framework. It was the > Codegear/Embarcadero licensing that first created Delphi Prism.
Correct. > The syntax that Prism uses is a lot cleaner in many respects - > especially removing the "procedure"/"function" conundrum and using > instead "method". However, in other ways it is horrible and so I can > also see why it is not something worth discussing further. Good. I just want to add that not every improvement (even if a real consensus exists that it is better) is worth breaking compatibility for. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal