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posted by marcov, 11.04.2008, 19:50

> > - The later 1.0.x versions were pretty decent,
>
> Better than 2.0.4? More stable??
Depends on what your focus is. Dos support and IDE support _might_ be better in 1.0.x. RTL and compiler are way more bugfree in 2.0.x, which was the first reason why the 2.0.x branch was created anyway.

The 1.0.x compiler had a little internal flaw that made maintenance painful.

> (Laaca, any comments?) That would be hard
> to believe, but I have heard rumors. So what has been the most stable DOS
> version, anyways, 1.0.10?? (Ignoring IDE and debugging but re: actual
> compiling.)
Then the recent the better compilerwise. Dos support, don't know. Laaca probably knows that better than me.

> > IMHO in all other things FPC is better. The most crucial one being that
> > FPC (and maybe GPC) are the only ones with any future at all.
>
> Yes, obviously, and that is due to being GPL.

Not really. Being open, and having some community actually developing it. License is less important.

> (But of course C/C++ is
> king, for good or bad.)
Actually VB and VB.NET are afaik still the most used development tools.

> FASM is fully written in ASM, and
> it has many users.

Well, maybe some others like to move dunes in the Sahara using a spoon, but I find that neither very interesting let alone that I want to do that myself.

Note also that an assembler is fairly simple compared to a full production level compiler.

> people still use it. It's not as impossible to understand as some people
> pretend (at least, not at the bare instruction level ... other stuff may
> be a bit more complex).
It might not be impossible too to move dunes in the sahara using spoons. However it is neither useful nor productive :-)

Worse, at least moving dunes is simple, yet just a lot of work. The danger with asm is that when it really grows, you'll never get it somewhat bugfree.

Where the border lies is a matter of discipline and skill. But that comes at a productivity price. Moreover assembler is no good to me if for stability reasons I still have to code according a strict regime.

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