Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
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manual memory management of tobjects is redundant as you can get good
performance with ref counting tobjects.
That can be a point, yes. But it is somehow not related to any syntax.
It means not having to bother with my pet hate the try..finally..free
All in all the changes would mean you spend more of your time
implementing your application rather than typing loads of redundant
code.
Typing is only a very small part of the development cycle. Performance
measures indicate that rhe average programmer delivers about 2 to 20
lines per code per day (measured over the whole development cycles,
this of course includes testing, too).
Compare these with the lines of code you *could* write in eight hours if
you would just write them and you see how much you could optimize away
there if you'd actually manage to double the performance.
You are referring to an industrial strength development process taht is
not used by a lot of developers (at least not that I know of considering
Delphi is a RAD tool and is primarily used as such).
Maintenance is easier as their is less redundancy.
It simply depends on the kind of redundancy.
For instance, "type" and "var" keywords are just redundant, the compiler
could figure it out by itself, still they serve a useful purpose.
but that harms legibility. I wanna balance that trims the fat but not
the legibility.
jamie.
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