[fpc-devel] Coco/R usage for FPC

[Florian Klaempfl]

Graeme Geldenhuys schrieb:
> 2010/1/26 Florian Klaempfl <florian at freepascal.org>:
>> (remember, I did the initial development of FPC on a 386-40 with 4 MB
> 
> Wow, that must be long ago.

The "current" FPC code base was started in June 1993. Nice task for the
git addicted to take available old sources and cvs repositories and
stich together a git repository with a rather complete history ;)

>> memory on DOS), debugging a yacc generated parser being table driven is
>> a pain etc.
> 
> Not that I understand anything of this or compiler internals, I have
> read that yacc is table driven, and such tools are normally better at
> error reporting.

This might be, but reasonable error recovery is usally much harder.