Willibald Krenn wrote:
Hi!
Would there be interest in adding a Delphi compatible compiler to Mono?
Somehow I'd like to see support for my pet language.. :-)
Any thoughts? Willi
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I would been interested in helping out with a pascal compiler. But I would be very slow to begin with having never worked on any open source projects before. I do have a recursive descent compiler and runtine for a very simple pascal-like script language. Hence my interest. Although I think you have already moved away from a recursive descent implementation.
You're other intention is to make the language compatible with Delphi. Chrome has some interesting additions to Object Pascal. For example, additional language support for threaded methods. It would be interesting to move Pascal on a bit as a language without losing Delphi backward compatability.
Commercially,. I see no reason why Borland would not eventually
release a version of Delphi that targets Mono. Probably by the Delphi2007 IDE .
(4th Qtr Year 2006)
Although their original roadmap did talk about revisiting Linux this year.
But I agree with the point made that an open source compiler would be desirable along side other commercial offerings.
So count me in as a tester for now.
David
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