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From: Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>
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Subject: Re: Simple Pascal question
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 12:13:04 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-08-07, Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> On 8/7/2024 5:35 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>> Dates/times? You have to contend with an API that has accumulated so much
>> legacy cruft, that you are left with an old class where every single
>> member is deprecated, yet the class itself is still needed in the newer-
>> style calls.
>
> That is also one of Roland's pet peeves.
>

Now try parsing JSON using the supplied builtin Java libraries
on Android. :-)

There is a solution but it is not as clean as elsewhere.

Simon.

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