Hi,
I totally agree that available libraries like the above are what
attract (or keep existing) users to Pascal, not some minor
syntactical sugar.
But syntax features attract the library developers that will write those
attractive libraries
Cheers,
Benito
On 25.04.2018 16:27, Dennis wrote:
Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
I want the same for pascal.
But I really still need to see convincing evidence that language
features contribute to productivity.
Available libraries for common programming tasks - and I mean this on
a high-level
level - are infinitely more important, so I don't need to get down to
the
gory details of many tasks:
* Creating a PDF. * Creating a good-looking report from Data. * Have
an API that reads google protocol data.
* A good ORM/OPF.
* Reading a smartcard.
* Access a Google,Facebook,Twitter, MS or what-have-you-not REST API.
* A wizard that makes a Data entry form based on a TDataset or object.
* Classes to make a REST API.
* Classes to make/consume a SOAP service.
* Code that transforms a JSON structure to object classes plus the
code to
* read/write the JSON.
These are things that make me win time.
I totally agree that available libraries like the above are what
attract (or keep existing) users to Pascal, not some minor
syntactical sugar.
E.g.
people new to AI will learn python just because there are ready
libraries in AI callable by python.
People new to statistics will learn R just because there are ready
libraries of statistics in R.
People new to iOS will learn swift because it allows them easily
call all the libraries of iOS, not because swift is better than Pascal
or Java.
It is about convenience.
Dennis
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