[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Marco van de Voort]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 01:06:11PM +0200, Bernd Kreuss wrote:
> J?rgen 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 Z?rich both times when they were created.

Modula2 is the brother. Modula-3 is the OOP cousin. Oberon is Modula-3's
ackward brother :)
 
> 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.

I'm all for Modula2. It is one of the nicest languages from a didactic point
of view IMHO.