[Lazarus] Parser

Adem listmember at letterboxes.org
Wed Jun 30 22:59:15 CEST 2010


  On 2010-06-30 23:31, Florian Klämpfl wrote:
> Adem schrieb:
>> 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.
My assumption was this: Anyone who's going to add such capabilities 
would do it in a way that he/she/they would make sure there's enough of 
momentum/community to undertake not only the maintenance of their own 
(different lang compilation or whatever) contribution, but also help 
with relevant issue count in FPC.

IOW, this sort of thing should be a precondition to such contributions. 
Keeping the door ajar (or, at least, not closed) for this sort of thing 
would be --IMHO-- a good thing as it is likely to bring on (more) 
commercial (and, hence/hopefully more stable) interest to the FPC flora 
and fauna.

Frankly, I am not terribly fixated on getting 'commercial interest', but 
I am old enough to know that 'love' alone isn't always enough to 
guarantee continuity.
>> I would have thought it would be just the opposite:
>>
>> If you could compile, say, Modula (or C/C++) with FPC, you would have direct access to a huge&  time-tested resource of libraries etc which you could directly incorporate into your applications,
> This can be done already using compilers supporting these languages
True. But, wouln't it be nice if people could use, say, libc (as 
recently mentioned in FPC list) in FPC too?

Cheers,

Adem





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