It would be very cool if Jobs and Co. could be sold on the idea of
including FreePascal along with the other open source languages in OS X.
I play with all the tools, a little, and am impressed with the python
examples and the Java sup****t. (I still use JBuilder, though.)
If Objective-Pascal from the MW spec could be rolled into Xcode, wow! It
might be easier with the move to x86, but I'm not sure that matters as
much as people assume. Maybe compilers (non-optimized?) from C source
are less difficult to move about -- wish I knew more about compiler
theory, but lex/yacc are still a challenge for me after all these years.
Best I can do is a sloppy interpreter.
So, if any thought is given to tighter integration and a move towards
the full Xcode/Cocoa experience, that would be amazingly hot news.
If anyone here reads the REALbasic (comp.lang.basic.realbasic) news, you
can see how heated things are. The RB mailing lists are pretty active
right now, too. People are starved for an alternative to Obj-C, but Real
Software is burning their bridges with some Mac people.
I'm still thrilled to be playing with Pascal on the Mac again. I just
read the Borland Delphi Road Map transcript, too. They have versions
planned through 2008 already, with a primary focus on XML data and SQL
server technologies.
All good things for Delphi/Pascal fans.
I wonder if the "death" of Classic VB is helping, too? Gives Borland a
way to pitch Delphi to a larger audience, or will people move to C# and
other tools on Windows? Anything helping Pascal and Delphi is a good
thing to me.
- Scott
Semi-content PC-to-Mac switcher... almost happy. ;)
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