Am 20.07.2015 09:21 schrieb "Marco van de Voort" <mar...@stack.nl>: > > 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 procedural programming that has been mostly superseded by object oriented 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.
Of course. But there aren't only "20+ year old project[s]". While it might be not always worthwhile to use new features in an old project they can nevertheless be useful when you're working on a new project from the ground up. Regards, Sven
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