[fpc-pascal].NET opinions?

Jonas Maebe jonas at zeus.rug.ac.be
Tue Aug 20 21:07:42 CEST 2002


On dinsdag, augustus 20, 2002, at 08:37 , Peter H.M. Brooks wrote:

> Why should either back end add limitations?

Because e.g. Java doesn't know the concept of pointers, so you can't 
compile anything that uses pointers.

> If the big attraction is to have it working on a MAC, then surely it 
> makes
> more sense to port fpc to a MAC?

It's Mac, not MAC (MAC = Media Access Control) :) And we are working on 
that. In fact, "hello world" for Linux/PPC (and hopefully, shortly 
thereafter also for Mac OS X) is nearing compilability!


Jonas





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