On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 05:19:58PM +0100, Martin Schreiber wrote: > BTW, I actually think about to fork Free Pascal. Not in the near future but > the primary goals are defined already: > > - Back to the roots.
What are the roots? > - Add the necessary to build the most productive universal programming > language. > - Remove the not necessary. Subjective, requirements differ. I assume this definition of "productive" and "necessary" will be dictated by you and drive other people away from the project. Just like e.g. your coding style has previously. > - Produce at least as good code as Delphi 7. > - Compile at least as fast as Delphi 7. You know that sacrifices need to be made to make a compiler cross platform and easily portable. You can't have it all. It will be a shame to see your considerable talent wasted on another project with a bus factor of approximately 1. Henry _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
