[Lazarus] Parser

[Adem]

  On 2010-06-30 15:00, Marcos Douglas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich
> <DrDiettrich1 at aol.com>  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?

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, or even do 
automatic source code translation (provided someone writes this 
capability); all these and more could add plenty more glamor to FPC 
--that is, if it needs that.

I know these things are mostly pie-in-the-sky at the moment, but I don't 
understand why it would be undesirable to lay the groundwork for future 
expansion.

Is this a new form of racism? ;)

[I couldn't help ending it with a troll <g>]

Cheers,

Adem