[fpc-pascal] Object pascal language compatiblity - was: Does FPC 2.8.0 can actually still be called Pascal ?

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, Sven Barth said:
> > Actually, I wouldn't have any interest working on a compiler using llvm
> > as a backend because it leaves only the boring front end work :) Not to
> > mention the maintainance problems when depending on an external cg
> > written not in pascal, the probably significant speed drop etc.
> 
> I've already thought whether I should write that you are one who is at 
> most against LLVM as a backend (though I do mostly agree with you), but 
> then I thought that I leave it just as general as I wrote it ^^

I've my doubts too. Not so much that I crave backend work (since I don't
work on the compiler), but from a release engineering viewpoint.

The external codebases and -versioning are always the problem.