On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
Adem schrieb:
On 2010-06-30 15:00, Marcos Douglas wrote:
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
<[email protected]> wrote:
One big advantage of the separation into syntactical and semantical
parts is the chance for adding further languages to the compiler...
No sense for me.
IMHO, we chose the FPC much more by language than by the great
compiler. If we have more languages, Pascal loses your glamour!
Why do you think Pascal would lose its glamor when (or if) FPC can
compile other languages?
... because it increases the maintainance work on fpc. Even with one
front end only we are almost unable to keep the issue count under
control. I'am pretty sure that more front ends will be rejected without
more people working on bug fixing in fpc.
Exactly. We can barely cope as it is. If we compiled C as well, we'd get
bug reports about glibc or whatever C library fails to compile. no thanks.
And, frankly, the project is called "Free Pascal" for a simple reason:
it is a *Pascal* compiler and a *Pascal* project.
Michael.
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