On Monday 24 December 2012 17:45:34 Henry Vermaak wrote: > 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. > Yup.
> > - 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. > We will see. > It will be a shame to see your considerable talent wasted on another > project with a bus factor of approximately 1. > Correct, but for me an important 1. ;-) Martin _______________________________________________ fpc-devel maillist - fpc-devel@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-devel
