On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 28.12.2013 14:25, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> >> 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. > > > Because you (the XE2 programmer) might look at Delphi XE5's NewGen compiler > (the LLVM based one) and think: "What the f*** are they doing with the > language?! O.o" > Or you might want to be compatible to more platforms than provided by Delphi > XE2 or you might want to keep using a VCL compatible GUI library on other > platforms whereby in Delphi you need to use FireMonkey here.
Ok, understood and just for clarify I'm not a XE2 programmer... I said "suppose". Regards, Marcos Douglas -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
