Re: Five Years After

[Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP>]

On 2018-01-24, Lucretia <laguest9000@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wednesday, 24 January 2018 19:06:52 UTC, Simon Clubley  wrote:
>
> I based on Oberon, the syntax needs to be massaged to take away the
> Wirthianisms that are just horrible. i.e. Uppercase keywords, ; or . and being
> optional or not, begin...end everywhere adding bulk.
>

I think of Oberon as being a really good idea but which is strangled by
some horrible syntax features. The mandatory uppercase keywords is the
number one feature that I dislike about Oberon - it makes Oberon code
look really ugly.

>  
>> The compilers are only available for a limited number of platforms,
>
> As was pointed out in that reddit thread, just look at the targets supported
> by Lazarus.
>

Lazarus is just the IDE on top of Free Pascal. You can use Free Pascal
without needing Lazarus.

I've actually wondered if it's possible to replace the Free Pascal
front end with an Ada front end and then use the existing Free Pascal
optimiser and code generators.

It would be a more lightweight backend than LLVM with an interesting
range of code generators. Of course, actually looking at the Free
Pascal source code (which is on my to-do list for some time in the
future) might quickly reveal that the front end is closely tied to
the back end...

Simon.

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