On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:26:34 -0400, you 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
Have a look at Fundamentals (http://fundementals.sourceforge.net/). It has libraries for strings, data structures, unicode, xml, etc. It's was written for Delphi, but I've gotten some way to compile under FreePascal. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - [email protected] http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
