----- Original Message -----
From: "Graeme Geldenhuys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Other FPC related discussions." <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2008 12:56 PM
Subject: [fpc-other] [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it
be,possible ?
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Skybuck Flying <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
1. Using automatic conversion from C to Pascal but then the code would
still
have to be checked by humans.
I can just imagine it will generate ugly code.
It would almost look the same as the C version which would be good for
comparing any future improvements to the Linux source code ;)
I would much rather imagine that a clean design
Are you suggesting to design a new operating system ? Difficult ?!
with a good objects structure would be a much better solution in the long
term.
Object-wrappers could be added on top of it... that might make it a bit
slower though.
2. Only convert certain portions which are most interesting to people.
For example:
Linux's tcp/ip stack.
Linux gui.
You are jumping the gun here! You FIRST need a kernel. Then you need
file system support. Then you can start with networking, utilities and
GUI applications.
I was wondering if it's possible to mix C and Pascal in Linux.
For example, leave kernel in C and make other things in Pascal.
The combine it in binary form... ?
Like linking in C libraries or so ?
Bye,
Skybuck.
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