Angelo Bertolli wrote:
What makes python interesting are the many classes it offers by default
to perform standard tasks, especially in the text treatment department;
regular expression stuff etc.
The same goes for most languages; Mostly it's not the language syntax
that determines the productivity factor; it's the number of standard
available routines.
Exactly! Thanks for brining this up. If you just want more people to
use Pascal, just
1) Make it simple
2) Have lots of nice tools
3) And most of all, have lots of units to do different thing
It's the libraries, functions, objects, etc. that really attract
people. Why do you think Java got so popular? It certainly wasn't
because it was lightning fast or easy to write. It was because the
"standard" libraries that come with Java (despite Sun's insistance to
try to talk about the two synonomously) were so extensive. Ever since
C and its concept of including libraries, it's been obvious that this
is the main attraction for people.
Okay, agreed. But what is there that can be done? I mean, yes -- there
are many things that can be done by Pascal guru's, but is there anything
to be done by a typical Pascal programmer? (without the knowledge of
similar C libraries) I'm a FreePascal programmer that would really like
to contribute to the project (for all it has given me) -- but with the
lack of compiler/linux related skills I don't see much I could do.
--
At your service,
Kornel Kisielewicz (charonATmagma-net.pl) [http://chaos.magma-net.pl/doom/]
"It's much easier to make an army of dumb good people than to
make one single smart good guy..." -- DarkGod
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