[Lazarus] Parser

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Florian Klämpfl wrote:

> Adem schrieb:
>>  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?
>
> ... 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.


Michael.