On 29.12.2013 17:25, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
On Sun, 29 Dec 2013, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
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.
[...]
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?
That would be a first.
There have been several occasions when we had a feature first.
They have always added it differently.
Objective C support for example. Embarcadero simply stuffed it into
their COM support while we already had the Objective Pascal
implementation...
Regards,
Sven
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