Marco van de Voort wrote:
> On 2008-04-28, thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<thomas.mertes@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On 28 Apr., 15:59, Marco van de Voort <mar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> On 2008-04-28, thomas.mer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<thomas.mer...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>> While I totally agree with you that slapping GPL on each and
everything is
>>>>> unnecessary, it is more the recycling of the compiler source than
using it
>>>>> that is limited by the GPL.
>>>> As I explained in the another mail. I plan to release a
>>>> Seed7 version of the P4 under the GPL. For this version
>>>> (or a later improved Seed7 version of the P4) it would
>>>> be interesting to take extensions from other sources.
>>>> Therefore I asked for the GPL compatibility.
>>> PD or BSD is already GPL compatible, and not as restrictive as GPL.
>>>
>>>> BTW.: Seed7 is my attempt to improve the ideas of Pascal.
>>>> Seed7 programs look familiar for Pascal programmers.
>>> I'm not interested in Seed. I've seen all arguments in comp.lang.misc
>>> already, and decided it doesn't solve any problems that I have.
>> Just curious.
>> Whad do you expect from a programming language?
>
> Well, primary not just language, but development system, community and
in
> general a somewhat healthy ecosystem.
>
> From the language, I'd say make large applications with a minimal
overall effort.
>
> A small additional requirment is a GUI system that works easy, is
powerful,
> but doesn't force a too rigid structure.
>
> In general that means a compromise between debugging and language
safety.
>
>> What problems do you have that need solving?
>
> My main problems involve threading. However not the base primitives, but
> actually splitting out algorithms over multiple cores.
>
> Fix that, and more people than just me will be interested.
Sounds a lot like IP Pascal :-)
Scott Moore
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