[Lazarus] Parser

[Florian Klaempfl]

Marco van de Voort schrieb:
> 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.

Aren't you against a e.g. .Net backend because it requires a completely
different runtime :)? I think the same applies to M2 etc. as well?