On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:54 PM, Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> wrote:

> On Mo, 2016-01-25 at 22:09 -0300, silvioprog wrote:
>
> > But, unfortunatelly, even with this pros, Pascal programmers avoid to use
> > external libraries, that's a real fact. :-/
>
> Speaking of the core team, you may be right. And speaking about people
> writing cross plattform programm it presumably is a wise decision to
> translate things to pascal. Once done it reduces efforts of updating
> external libs to newer versions, oddities when compiling for multiple
> platforms, etc.
>

I agree. And using lib I can use the modularization concept with Free
Pascal.


> But besides that I'm not hesitating to use external libraries to get
> things done. I had some USB access code from a third party and no time
> to translate before the release, so it was a bliss to compile some cut
> out C functions into objects and link them to the pascal program. Works,
> still in use.


Awesome!

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Silvio Clécio
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