Marco van de Voort schrieb: > 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.
Aren't you against a e.g. .Net backend because it requires a completely different runtime :)? I think the same applies to M2 etc. as well? -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
