Re: Oberon-2 front-end as a GSoC project

[Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>]

"Levon Haykazyan" <levon@rock.com> writes:

>> "Levon Haykazyan" <levon@rock.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Since I didn't get much feedback, I concluded that this idea does not
>> > interest anybody. So I will not pursue this any further.
>> 
>> To be honest, you are asking the wrong set of people.  Today, gcc does
>> not support Oberon-2.  So the people who develop gcc today are not very
>> interested in it.  In general we support new language frontends, but at
>> the same time we are satisfied with the frontends that we have.
>> 
>> If you want to find out whether this idea interests anybody, you would
>> need to find the people who would use an Oberon-2 frontend.  Those
>> people are not gcc developers.  They are gcc users.  I don't know
>> whether there are any such people.  But it's not surprising that you
>> won't find them here.  I don't know where you would find them; I don't
>> know enough about Oberon-2.
>> 
>> Ian
>
>>
>
> Hi Ian,
>
> Thank you for your answer. I though I should ask GSoC related questions
> here. Anyhow, I am interested, and for me that's enough to implement it.
> But I decided to write the entire compiler from scratch. I couldn't
> resist writing a compiler in the same language :)

To be clear, it was fine to ask the question here.  I am just saying
that the lack of feedback does not mean that the idea does not interest
anybody.  It only means that it does not interest the current set of gcc
developers very much.

Ian