On Sun, 19 Jul 2015, Jonas Maebe wrote:
Den wrote:
Just like ECMAScript,
C++, PHP, most languages now have a 'standards' document behind it.
That's their *roadmap*. Their *leadership*. Design it and the
*community* will show *support*.
ISO Pascal and ISO Extended Pascal were like that in the early 90s:
1) there was an official ISO standard and standards committee for it
2) there were a number commercial compilers supporting it such as HP Pascal
and IBM's compiler for its System/370
3) later on (in 1996) a GCC-based implementation arrived for it (the
equivalent of the LLVM of the moment)
And still almost no one uses ISO/Extended Pascal anymore. Why? Possibly
because the de facto Pascal standards had already become Think Pascal on the
Mac and Turbo Pascal on the PC by then, and none of those programmers wanted
to rewrite all of their code (although Think Pascal was a bit closer to ISO
Pascal). Or maybe because in general, many people just preferred those
language dialects for one reason or another. In any case, introducing one new
standard to rule them all seldom (if ever) works
It doesn't even work for magical rings. Although it took 3000 years to find
that out.
Nevertheless, I must agree a roadmap for FPC with some detailed proposals would
be nice.
Michael.
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