[fpc-pascal].NET opinions?

[Florian Klaempfl]

At 21:16 20.08.2002 +0200, you wrote:
> > Marco van de Voort wrote:
>
> > >I think a Java backend would lay even worse limitations on the 
> language than
> > >.NET.
> > >
> > Sorry for the offtopic, this reminded me of something, how is the status
> > of the possibility to link to C++ object files?
> > Never thought about it? Would never consider doing it? Yes, but long
> > term? We are already working on it? It works right now?
> > I just wanted to know, it might be a more interesting issue to be able
> > to link to C++ first.
> >
> > Along the same lines, I am not very acquainted with QT, but aren't QT
> > C++? How is it possible to link FPC code with QT to create KDE-like apps?
>
>About QT specifically something came up. There is a tool to translate the
>(IIRC IDL) abstract prototypes to plain C.
>
>This could be adapted to generate (Object or plain) Pascal headers too.
>
>The tool is in Perl though, and all FPC developpers don't like to touch
>that, so no core-developper worked on that yet.

That's not true :) I started this already and the headers already look
like pascal. But other developers told me to do the FPC cg stuff instead
of playing with perl ;) But if anybody else is interessted I can send
him the work which is already done. Within a few hours of work it should
be possible to get Qt3/KDE3 programs run with FPC.