FTA: “That almost nobody has the skills these days to implement something like TP”
I don’t think that’s true. Percentage-wise, the number may have dropped, but there are many more programmers now than there were back then.
I even am not convinced that percentage is lower today. There are plenty of people in the demo scene who, if incentivized, could write something like it.
You also have to realize that TP 7 is relatively simple compared to today’s development environments. To mention a few items:
- pascal is a lot easier for an IDE than C
- no messing with character encodings
- the editor may be fast, but does it stay fast when confronted with very large files?
I don’t think that’s true. Percentage-wise, the number may have dropped, but there are many more programmers now than there were back then.
I even am not convinced that percentage is lower today. There are plenty of people in the demo scene who, if incentivized, could write something like it.
You also have to realize that TP 7 is relatively simple compared to today’s development environments. To mention a few items:
- pascal is a lot easier for an IDE than C
- no messing with character encodings
- the editor may be fast, but does it stay fast when confronted with very large files?
- TP need not be cross-platform