I go back rather (too?) far...eg pre v1.0 - unfortunately I can't remember what the version was when I first downloaded fpk & tried to compile an fft - it crashed compiler - fixed by Jonas iirc. I'm so sad that I still use fpk for fpc directories - I'm kind'a sorry we changed that. I sort of got the flow about 'right'? except I thought the king might be have been & perhaps should have been Florian!
NIce story, btw brilliant English too - tho' I'm used to calling the 3 Kings 'Magis' in context of Christmas and all that...J On 5 November 2012 20:28, Sven Barth <pascaldra...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 18.10.2012 13:13, Sven Barth wrote: > >> Once upon a time there was a small kingdom ruled by a kind king. The >> king had two daughters and more children were planned to come. But the >> king had already problems to find approbiate rooms for his second child. >> So he ordered his mages to reconstruct the castle in a way that the >> ever-growing family can easily be accommodated. >> The mages immediately began with their work and reshaped the castle with >> their spells. But as the work on the castle neared its completion a >> terrible accident happend to the second princess when she played between >> the working mages. She was no longer able to walk or even sit upright >> without support. The mages tried their best to heal her, but in the end >> they needed to finish the castle so that the royal family could have >> their home back before the winter strikes. But even after the castle had >> been finished they didn't have enough time for the disabled princess as >> the family had already grown during the mages' work and required their >> full attention. And so the days and months passed by in which the second >> daughter of the king was confined to her room and could not join in the >> family's activities. >> Then one day a young mage came along and joined the mages of the castle. >> He helped them with maintaining the magically enhanced castle, but while >> searching for places to fix and further extend he stumpled upon the room >> of the isolated princess. He felt sorry for the girl's state and >> although he did not know much about healing magic he decided to improve >> his knowledge and help the her. So he spent the evenings after his >> normal work at the castle in the library and looked through the books >> about healing magic. Sometimes he then went to the princess' chamber and >> applied his newly learned knowledge. >> After some weeks his work finally paid off and the girl was able to feel >> and move her legs again. And after some more time she was finally able >> to walk again. Although she needed to move slowly and with the help of >> crutches, she was finally able to take part in the life at the castle >> again. The young mage continued to heal her and they all lived happily >> ever after. >> >> So... now I'm curious what you think I have worked on and I'm also >> curious whether someone can fully "decipher" that little story. :) >> > > Before I forget it: here is the meaning of the story elements: > > small kingdom => FPC project + community (small compared to e.g. the C > "kingdom" ;) ) > the royal family => the compiler with > the king => the "fpc" binary > the children => the single "ppcX" binaries (with "ppcX" and "ppcrossX" > being together as one) > the oldest child => x86 (the platform on which Florian developed FPC > on) > the second oldest child => m68k (the first platform after x86 that he > compiler was ported to and which lead to the insight that the code > generator needs to be redesigned) > all the other younger children => arm, powerpc(64), sparc, mips(el), > x86_64, jvm (, aarch64 ;) ) - most of them were "born" during the rewrite > (not mentioned, but the children that are dead (at least so far) => > alpha, itanium, vis) > the mages => the compiler developers > the rebuilding of the castle => the code generator rewrite (and I like the > result very much! :D ) > the "accident" => m68k never got fully rewritten > the "young mage" => me :) > the healing => fixing the m68k code generator > the need to use crutches => m68k starts to compile simple applications > again (the current state I'd describe as "heavily limping without crouches" > by the way) > > I hope now it's more clear what I wanted to tell with the story. Some > parts might indeed not be that obvious (e.g. that the king is the "fpc" > binary; he could have been "King FPK" as well ;) ), but I had not imagined > that it's that unobvious... > > Regards, > Sven > ______________________________**_________________ > fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org > http://lists.freepascal.org/**mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel<http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel> >
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