I agree with your points, and I listed some of them.
Pascal has its own long list of issues, such as lack of functional and block
enclosement (Especially true in Lazarus and free Pascal).
Conceptual programming is what STL does as example. You declare a concept
and then you do implementations. C++ conceptual support is not very user
friendly however, but still works. They may add some more support for
conceptual programming in the next ANSI standard, but I have not checked it
out yet.
In conceptual programming you can create concepts that will work on
anything. The concepts will work on Integers or objects as well as on any
type of container. There are number of books on STL and conceptual
programming.
Personally I think C++ is just not very good in it, but Pascal simply can't
do it.
With best regards,
Boian Mitov
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ales Katona" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "FPC developers' list" <fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:56 AM
Subject: Re: [fpc-devel] Russianlocale
informationnotcompatiblewithFPClocalevariables
I can't like an OOP model in which you:
1. can't call virtual methods from constructors
2. can't safely do stuff in constructors without using exceptions
3. can't limit the constructors being called (e.g: call order a, b, c)
4. no metaclasses or RTTI
These are all language ad-hoc design limitations of C++, I'm sure there
are more, but I personaly hit these. Perhaps I'm just spoiled by good OOP
tho :P
I'm curious however, what do you mean by "conceptual programming"? Can you
provide an example?
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