Marco van de Voort wrote:
>> Last TP release is from 1993. So what? It's still used widely.
>
> You are comparing a production compiler with 7 major iterations, and one
of
> the most succesful compilers of all time to this thing which even the
author
> itself calls experimental (in italics for extra emphasis even) ?
I don't "compare". I just want to make clear, that "old" doesn't mean
"useless". I still use DOS.
> something new if you don't have to, but it is not a compelling reason to
> advise sb TP.
I didn't advise TP. ;-)
>>> see something in it. (while to be honest, I also initially thought it
was a
>>> joke, the contrast of something nonfunction with the big ones, which
you
>>
>> Why do you think, IP doesn't work? Did you try it?
>
> Till now you haven't really made a point yet to even bother to try.
Hey, you don't need to try it, but then don't say "something nonfunction".
>> Free Pascal or Delphi *are* bloated compared to Turbo Pascal for DOS!
>
> And TP is bloated to assembler. So what? You are still using TP aren't
you?
I compared Pascal compilers, not programming languages.
> I've 16 byte assembler .com's that do something, and TP minimal size is
> larger than 1000 bytes even!!!
That's why I use TP rarely these days.
>> Delphi 7 Personal "only" takes ~90 MiB on my PC. For what? I only need
a
>> tenth part of its features.
>
> (If that worries you, you obviously haven't tried a BDS version then :-)
That's right.
> Still, I'd never use TP nowadays to save a couple tens of megs out of HD
> systems that count space in hundreds of GBs, with the TB barrier coming
into
> plain sight.
But sum those tens of megs for every "stupid" development system (DJGPP,
Cygwin, MinGW, Delphi, Free Pascal, ...) one needs for open source
projects...
> Why? Three major reasons:
>
> - limit string lengths. (yes you can emulate with pchar, but if I would
> consider that adequate stringsup****t, I would use C)
> - 16-bit limits on structures.
> - API problems (LFN being one of them)
All nice, but what, if you don't need these?! ;-)
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