What is the history and main motivation behind the development of FastGEO?
FastGEO (version 0.0.1) was compiled for the first time on a cold winter’s night in July 1997 using the Borland Pascal 7.0 compiler. The first release contained only about 15 routines all up. Simple point in/on rectangle routines, distance calculations and a very buggy 2D segment intersection routine. As time went by and requests and code snippets came in from different sources FastGEO began to grow, and as the sun began to set upon the world of Borland Pascal, it was decided that FastGEO be transferred to Delphi. Function overloading, was the key to the next major step in the development of FastGEO. The idea that a person could provide the necessary input data and request a particular form of geometric functionality was the aim and with function overloading this was achieved easily. With the function overloading feature that Delphi provided with its object pascal compiler, all the most intuitive combinations of parameters for types of geometric functionality were implemented and provi
