recently did a conversion of a Delphi program to Java with some C++ and this is a strange argument to use. pressing F9 at any point in Delphi and having your pr

recently did a conversion of a Delphi program to Java with some C++ and this is a strange argument to use. pressing F9 at any point in Delphi and having your program run a second later is incredible, that plus catching the vast majority of errors compile time certainly does not slow you down. Speed wise on this last conversion project with the same first level optimizations GCC is a good 50% faster, the Java parts feel about the same or a bit slower though, Disclaimer I never go to extreme optimization settings on compilers, was bitten several years back and happy to not go cutting edge. Also Pascal is much less toxic community for noobs I got to the point about ten years back I would rather not ask the question on-line for GCC due to the fact I would be branded stupid for not knowing some obscure linker setting or such like. end of my career now, happy Pascal was part of it, especially in the early Turbo Pascal DOS days, I doubt I would have carried on at the time if I was forced to use C (I later did and it wasnt that bad but I had to scratch my head at the time how people thought it better)