In our previous episode, Sven Barth said: > The way we write software evolves however. Things that were thought as > state of the art 25 years ago aren't necessarily nowadays (for example > procedural programming that has been mostly superseded by object oriented > programming). And in this regards programming languages are like natural > languages: they evolve, they change. If a language doesn't evolve anymore > it can be considered dead (e.g. Latin, Ancient Greek). > So I personally support the addition of new features to FPC as long as they > don't interfere with backwards compatibility and fit into the language as a > whole.
The question though if a few haphazardly copied features make a 20+ year old project suddenly state of the art. Some of the "old" stuff goes deep. Translation "modern" comic books to Latin didn't really have a lasting affect on Latin uptake. _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel