On Thursday 02 June 2005 15:23, Jamie McCracken wrote: > Vinzent Hoefler wrote: > >>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
Well, try/finally is mainly for handling exceptions, not for handling memory. ;-) > > 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 Basically I'm just talking about being professionell. > 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). _Anything_ is used as RAD tool these days. The problem is, it's not so rapid after all. Vinzent. -- public key: http://www.t-domaingrabbing.ch/publickey.asc _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel