On 2007-08-23, Robert Riebisch <Robert.Riebisch@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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".
In IP's case it was the combination of OLD, experimental and not
sup****ted.
> I still use DOS.
For?
>>> 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".
I trust the moniker "experimental" from the author in italics.
>>> 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.
The relevance is about the same.
>>> 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.
(you haven't missed much)
>> 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...
Then you have a GB. About one euro worth of diskspace. Even if you need a
10
of these immense beasts.
>> - 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?! ;-)
Then I'd wonder what you actually do with a programming language.
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