[fpc-pascal] Re: Delphi's anonymous functions in Free Pascal

[Florian Klaempfl]

Am 08.11.2011 07:35, schrieb Graeme Geldenhuys:
> On 7 November 2011 20:41, Marco van de Voort wrote:
>>
>> That "current" is added by you. FPC strives to do that of course, but never
>> had the illusion it was near enough to claim something like that. Not now,
>> and not in the past.
> 
> So what exactly is the goals of FPC then? And please don't tell me
> "delphi compatible" because then you need to tell me which version of
> Delphi - and I doubt you can.
> 
> As a core developer of FPC can yo please summarize in one or two
> sentences the actual goal of FPC - that way we are all on the same
> page.

Let me answer:
Writing an (L)GPL'ed pascal (*) compiler being self hosting.

(*) pascal might be replaced by 'wirthian languages' if someone with a
lot of commitment over years pops up and works on this.