> Just wandering if any of you are interested in modernising Pascal which
> is looking quite dated when compared to modern languages like Python. I
> note free pascal supports a variety of pascal dialects but none of them
> are particular modern.
Could you define modern? Nearly all "modern" lan
peter green wrote:
1. Memory management. Delphi is quite incosistent here by allowing
component classes to be auto managed (via their owner) whilst
non-component class have to be manually managed. The best solution I can
think for this is to reference count non-component classes. This should
be saf
> 1. Memory management. Delphi is quite incosistent here by allowing
> component classes to be auto managed (via their owner) whilst
> non-component class have to be manually managed. The best solution I can
> think for this is to reference count non-component classes. This should
> be safe for TO
Jamie McCracken wrote:
Hi,
Just wandering if any of you are interested in modernising Pascal which
is looking quite dated when compared to modern languages like Python.
Oh, the language which is on fortran 77 level regarding formatting?
Sorry, couldn't resist :)
> (note I did not use a T in front of StringList so as to distinguish it
> from non-base types and also to maintain backwards compatibility with
> existing code that uses TStringList conventionally)
>
>
> jamie.
Are you always drunk?
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fpc-devel
Hi,
Just wandering if any of you are interested in modernising Pascal which
is looking quite dated when compared to modern languages like Python. I
note free pascal supports a variety of pascal dialects but none of them
are particular modern.
My main gripes with Delphi/pascal is its additional
It would appear that the set of win32 binaries that Peter installed in the
install/binw32 directory of cvs on 2/7 contains a back-level version of a couple
programs, as compared to the versions available from the binary download (1.9.6
released 1/1/2005). Specifically, the download version of
On Tuesday 22 February 2005 08:09, Peter Vreman wrote:
> > So let's assume I'm a completely idiot and I have downloaded fpc from cvs
> > to
> > compile it on a windows system. Do I have any hope to compile it?
>
> Install fpc 1.0.10
> Download fpc from cvs
> Start cmd.exe
> Go to the new fpc direct
