On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Florian Klämpfl <flor...@freepascal.org> wrote: > Am 28.12.2013 13:37, schrieb Jürgen Hestermann: >> Am 2013-12-28 13:19, schrieb Florian Klämpfl: >>>> I understand. But if the major companies prefer to use C# or Java >>>> instead Delphi well, they not care about Delphi compatibilities. If >>>> they care, why they would be leaving Delphi? >>> If they leave Delphi compatibility, they normally don't go for a >>> marginal oss compiler. >> >> The question is: >> Why did they use Delphi before at all? >> >> If the reason was that Delphi was a very common and widespread >> programming environment >> then it is a understandable behaviour to move to the next main stream >> environment >> as soon as budget and time allows. >> Such people would never care about FPC/Lazarus (even when it was fully >> Delphi "compatible"). >> They would never think about using it. >> So making FPC/Lazarus "compatible" would not hold any user of this group. > > The world is not only 1 and 0. FPC lives (and living means getting > usefull code!) from being delphi compatible but filling the niches > delphi leaves open. Everything else is "by-catch". > >> >> If the reason was that they like Pascal as an easy to learn and >> mantain language then they will invest into migration even >> if not all parts are the identical to Delphi. >> Just the opposite: >> They may like that not all misconcepts are repeated in >> FPC/Lazarus and they may like that it is open source. > > GPC proved your argumentation wrong. GPC took the "clean way" of > extended pascal (you always complain about fpc's dyn. arrays. Just use > GPC, it has the clean solution) Unfortuntaly GPC development stopped for > years due to missing contributors. The people keeping FPC alive are > those interested in Delphi compatibility.
Right. I didn't understand one thing: If I'm a Delphi XE2 programmer (suppose), why I will need to keep FPC compatible with Delphi? If I'm a Delphi programmer I will use... Delphi. Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus