On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:03, Marco van de Voort <[email protected]> wrote: > Well, you can nearly impossibly miss the sliding slope there. First just > strings, then hashing to speed it up, then wildcards, then demand for regex > etc. This is generic argument applicable to any language feature. "Sliding slopes" are everywhere, so the safest course of action is not to move at all. This is what I am ranting about, excessive conservatism leading to a stagnation.
> And everytime the same references to other interpreted languages that do such > things. Eh, "other interpreted"? Pascal is compiled, as you surely know. > In general the Wirthian philosophy was limitation to the basics, and > Pascal's direct successor language (modula2) is actually smaller. I already answered this. Modula and Oberon are a direct successors of Pascal, but so is Object Pascal. For better or worse, Object Pascal has taken another course, and I don't think it is a good move to retrofit minimalist philosophy to Object Pascal now. Otherwise, we should start by removing built-in Strings -- they are against this philosophy too (and were criticized for that). -- Alexander S. Klenin _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
