On Wednesday 27 July 2016 23:27:21 Jonas Maebe wrote: > > Properly designing a new programming language concept is hard, and the > worst thing is that once it's shipped, you are stuck with it basically > forever. I think it needs more than just some example programs and tests > to design one from scratch. > > It's really too bad there is no programming language committee for the > Pascal language with language design experts that could discuss and > refine this in-depth. I'm no language design expert myself at all and > preferably would not even get involved in this kind of discussions but > at the same time I don't want to get stuck with having to maintain and > support an ever growing language that becomes less and less > self-consistent and more and more complex (while there may be simpler or > clearer ways to achieve the same things). > I second this. It is really sad what happened with the Delphi language and even worse with Free Pascal and its different dialects in recent years.
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