Florian Klämpfl schrieb:
Well, in this case twenty years teached me a lesson so I can make a clear statement. When I started FPC I had a lot of ideas how I could do things differently and how it could help my chess program initially written in TP. However, nobody shared those ideas, well, they had their own.
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For strings, I proposed, the first time ~2000 I think, to introduce basically an opaque string type which can store any encoding, people complained, this will be too slow (true), incompatible with old code (true), incompatible with delphi (true). So it never happended. This list can be continued endlessly. Lesson learned.
Perhaps the Delphi developers have a look at FPC discussions and innovations, and add useful features to Delphi?
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