[fpc-pascal] FPC and JAVA

[Marco van de Voort]

> > Legacy Pascal? Din't generics get added in the last release? Anyways,
> > I'm not asking for a CLR/JVM port. FPC already generates code for the
> > target (here, ARM) it is only the OS interface that we are talking
> > about.

> All native Object Pascal is legacy code for me. I haven't used Pascal in 
> a new project for .. um.. 3 + years. Last job I maintained a Delphi app, 
> but all new dev was in DotNet.

(My last job switched to C#, and has recently switched back to native
delphi for normal apps, so back to delphi except for ASP.NET)

> soon, I'm entering the world of MacOS X soon. Though MONO is on the 
> MacOS X platform, so I might not even then.

Lazarus looks mighty fine natively on Mac. What does Mono have to counter
that?