On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:53:39PM +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > ... 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.
I'm sorry. Can't agree with that. I'm still dreaming of a FreeWirth (though admitted, M2 is so close (both parsing, modulesystem and language type) that one could regard it as a dialect. -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
