[fpc-pascal] opendelphi.org

[Florian Klaempfl]

Bisma Jayadi wrote:
>> Delphi 2006 for Win32 also incorperates a lot of the innovations nade in
>> Delphi.Net.
> 
> .Net? Though I had suggested FPC to also implement some new Delphi
> language features which I think very usefull, but I agree with FPC core
> team that we don't need to support .Net yet.
> 
> IMO, .Net is just a bussiness buzz from M$ to attract their customers
> and prevent them from switching to Un*x systems. Speaking technically, I
> saw nothing new in the .Net technology. It's just a combination of Java
> (on the system architecture) and Delphi technology (on the system
> language), with extra resource requirements as the consequences. :p
> 
> And if we study the FPC compiler architecture, IMO it's very possible to
> support .Net. Adding .Net assembly generator on the FPC assembler
> generator layer would make FPC able to produce .Net executable. CMIIW.
> But, I think we don't need to do this now. :D

That's exactly the point. If .Net really gets important, we can easily make a
.Net back end. But for now we won't support M$'s bs bingo. However, as long as
MS Office isn't written in .Net I see no need to do see even if M$ tries
permanently to tell people this is a different story :)))