On Sun, 14 May 2006 18:06:46 -0300
"Felipe Monteiro de Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/14/06, Al Boldi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A RAD/IDE should not lock itself into one language only, but should
> > rather strive to be compiler/language independent. Implementing this
> > with the FPC would probably be proof enough that Pascal isn't dead.
>
> Some other things were mentioned, but I think that people forgot the
> main reason why adding c++ for example to Lazarus would be very hard.
>
> Lazarus works on top of LCL, the Lazarus Component Library. LCL uses
> register calling convention, Pascal strings, and pascal classes.
>
> You would need to do like Borland did and add extensions to c++ so it
> can support those pascal features, and this means either extending a
> c++ compiler or creating a new one! The same for most other languages.
> This is necessare so you can link pascal .o files together with c++ .o
> files and make the c++ code able to understand the pascal functions /
> methods and call them.
The IDE is not only form designing.
Many people would like to use one IDE for all of their source - pascal GUIs,
php/html/js webpages, c++ tools/libs, perl/python/bash scripts ...
We have already syntax highlighers for all of them. A plugin for code
formatters and parsing tools could be useful. Although I have other
priorities at the moment.
Mattias
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