It depends on how carefully and elegantly it is implemented. There is no reason why such stuff need be inelegant or cluttered.
All I am asking for is enough language/ compiler enhancements to allow developers to build and fine tune apps to the maximum. If RB is to attract as wide as possible a base of programmers it has to be able to enable professionals to optimise the code, as well as being easy for beginners. What I want to avoid is the "if you cant do it in RB fast enough, build a plugin" philosophy. I am of the opinion that in a truly "industrial strength" language , the only time one should have to resort to using libraries such as plugins, built in C - would be where one needs ASSEMBLER to achieve the necessary performance. Anything other performance optimisations should be achievable in the language itself. Many developers writing commercial apps avoid 3rd party libraries because of all the dependency issues and support etc. In order to attract such developers to the RB platform one would have to assure such developers that one can do the majority of the coding in the language itself and not have to continually resort to extra plugins or libraries to get the desired performance. On 14/9/06 17:45, "Charles Yeomans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So-called "religious" objections aren't necessarily unreasonable. > I'd rather not see the language become overly cluttered with an ever- > increasing list of special constructions and syntax. _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
