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>> What matters is designing und understanding the code, not writing
>> it. I spend less than 10% of my time at work in actually _writing_
>> code, so even if someone can type in his/her code twice as fast, the
>> maximum (s)he would gain would be five percent in overall performance.
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> you are missing the point!
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> Whather you can implement something faster in another language is not
> the issue. I am arguing for less verbose syntax without decreasing
> the clarity of the code in delphi/pascal and that is logically gonna
> improve productivity without taking anything away.
This is only 'logical' if the hypothesis
"productivity is inversely related to the syntax verbosity"
is correct.
I question the correctness of the hypothesis, and I assume, so does
Florian...
I think the point of this is being lost on me. We're talking about changing things like philosophy (top-down design), and syntax. So are we talking about just creating another new language? I mean that's what it sounds like. Why not take Python or C# and add Pascal syntax or philsophies to it instead of adding these to Pascal?
Maybe some people just really don't like Pascal that much.