On 11-11-2010 0:21, Henry Vermaak wrote:
On 10 November 2010 18:13, Alexander Klenin<kle...@gmail.com> wrote:
Why didn't they just set a bounty or pay a compiler dev to fix it?
I'm sure that would be cheaper than buying lots of Delphi licences.
Henry
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It isn't! Not by a long way.
This "fix" sounds a major redesign and could take up to at least 6- 9
months (in FTE's, hours if you wish) for a seriously good team (like the
compiler core team actually is, slime, smile).
I just left a (large) team that is top - notch. Average salary €5500,-
monthly (incl. the free pension scheme) , senior seniors more.
An XE site license for 20 developers is still *a lot* cheaper than that,
with proper negotiations. But it is not X platform. If you want a X
platform business and drive it through pascal dialects you are basically
stuck to two options: GNU Pascal (written and maintained in C) and
FreePascal (written and maintained in Pascal).
That's why sometimes a commercial compiler is hard to beat.
What I like about FPC is that I can make my hands dirty and fix the
bugs/features myself.
This is especially important for small to middle size companies, because
if a big one (company) shouts, Embarcadero squieks... and tries to fix
it asap.
Graeme should realize that the Delphi compilers (or MS compilers or
Watson, or Intel) can all drive you nuts with behaveour beyond the
documentation or beyond logic.
At least with FPC, you can do something about it, like with the GNU
compiler set. That one is also prone to a lot of "features", btw,
especially cross platform.
Just my two cents. Euro cents are used only virtual anyway.
Thaddy
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