Florian Klämpfl schrieb:
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.
I don't think that the workload is increasing so much. Of course every
FE deserves its own maintenance, but once the syntax (parser) is
implemented, there remains nothing to do on it.
I would have thought it would be just the opposite:
If you could compile, say, Modula (or C/C++) with FPC, you would have
direct access to a huge & time-tested resource of libraries etc which
you could directly incorporate into your applications,
This can be done already using compilers supporting these languages
These compilers are not available for all FPC-supported platforms, and
linking their binaries to an FPC application may not work, due to
different object formats, RTL etc.
A common compiler also could eliminate the need for writing interfaces
for such libraries - to some degree.
DoDi
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