[Lazarus] Is Lazarus project in a downward spiral?

[JoshyFun]

Hello Lazarus-List,

Sunday, March 7, 2010, 5:51:33 PM, you wrote:

HPD> I already made an C-to-Pascal converter
HPD> <http://sourceforge.net/projects/topas/>, but then got stuck in handling
HPD> #defines, which deserve translation into either constants or functions,
HPD> or must be expanded.
HPD> I never wanted it to handle C++ syntax, but if you have ideas how to
HPD> make it usable for (partial) translation of C++ code, I'm willing to
HPD> update it accordingly.

I think that it would be great to have something that can sintax
traslate from C++ to Pascal, but not a whole code with defines,
macros, and other things, just a plain block syntax converter, that
could simplify manual conversion, like creating the var block,
handling the if {} conversion and always take the simple route, not
trying to be smarter than the user ;)

Integrating this in the IDE could help to convert function by
function, without too many changes.

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Best regards,
 JoshyFun