[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Burkhard Carstens]

Am Montag, 14. September 2009 13:06 schrieb Bernd Kreuss:
> Jürgen Hestermann wrote:
> > Are you sure this would be possible?
> > Then all other languages coud be added too: ;-)
>
> Oberon is not just an arbitrary other language, it is Pascals younger
> brother and ALGOL is their mother and it is told that the same guy
> named Wirth was around at ETH Zürich both times when they were
> created.
>
> I'm not sure how flexible the compiler is and how easy or difficult
> implementing a new frontend would be, not all the languages in your
> list are statically typed so much of them wouldn't make sense at all
> for this compiler, but maybe ALGOL, Modula and Euler would be cool
> also, to make this family of languages more complete.
>
> And maybe Ada should also be worth thinking about? Ada would be even
> cooler and has a lot more practical applications than Oberon or
> Modula, and maybe even the US DoD would start supporting the ompiler
> ;-)

If I want "eggs and Bacon" I use my oven, not the engine of my car...

Well, finally, I prefer a toaster that toast my bread perfectly, over 
laptop that also makes coffee.

IOW: I want a perfect pascal compiler, not some chameleon, that does 
1000 things but none of them right.

regards
 B.