Am Friday, dem 23. Sep 2005 schrieb Frank Heckenbach:
But you must admit, that most Borland extensions are very DOS/Windows specific, while the extensions from Extended Pascal are designed to be very portable.
And also many are rather low-level, including the stuff they blindly copied from C (#0-terminated strings, 0-based arrays in open arrays, etc.) ...
Well, but there are also some extensions, which I really miss in GPC. And I hope, both will get a little more compatible to each other. So, please take it as a wishlist.
- Mainly I like the so called AnsiString. http://community.freepascal.org:10000/docs-html/ref/refsu10.html - Namespaces. I mean in FPC you can define functions with the same name in different units and you can define which one to use like this: crt.readkey or graph.readkey - Classes http://community.freepascal.org:10000/docs-html/ref/refch6.html