[fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?

[Skybuck Flying]

Ok, so lots of code...

Two possibilities come to mind:

1. Using automatic conversion from C to Pascal but then the code would still 
have to be checked by humans.

2. Only convert certain portions which are most interesting to people.

For example:

Linux's tcp/ip stack.

Linux gui.

So that for example Linux gui might be improved by pascal programmers ;) :)

Is that possible ? ;)

Bye,
  Skybuck.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Vincent Snijders" <vsnijders at vodafonevast.nl>
To: "FPC-Pascal users discussions" <fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: [fpc-pascal] Porting linux to pascal, would it be, possible ?


> Skybuck Flying schreef:
>> If everybody does a little bit it could go quite quickly.
>>
>
> Some (arbitrary numbers) from http://www.ohloh.net/p/linux:
> Codebase  10,679,927 lines
> Effort (est.) 3,396 Person Years
>
> So, if everybody on this list (maybe 300 persons) work on it, then it can 
> be done in just over 11 years. Not so quickly, IMHO.
>
> Vincent
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