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

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 11:01:11 CET 2008


On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Skybuck Flying <skybuck2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> 1. Using automatic conversion from C to Pascal but then the code would still
> have to be checked by humans.

I can just imagine it will generate ugly code. I would much rather
imagine that a clean design with a good objects structure would be a
much better solution in the long term.


> 2. Only convert certain portions which are most interesting to people.
> For example:
> Linux's tcp/ip stack.
> Linux gui.

You are jumping the gun here!  You FIRST need a kernel. Then you need
file system support. Then you can start with networking, utilities and
GUI applications.


Regards,
  - Graeme -


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