[Lazarus] Parser

[Marco van de Voort]

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.