Kornel Kisielewicz wrote: > 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.
- create good container classes (map, hash, trees etc.) - write a bcd classes - extend e.g. the convutils stuff - look at your own work which could be abstracted and being interesting for fpc - write docs for the already existing packages Just a few ideas :) _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
