Am 06.08.2010 02:59, schrieb Steven D'Aprano:
You didn't say "major", you said "must". Not "usually are", or "can be", or "often are", or "sometimes are", or any other nuanced qualification. You made a sweeping generalisation that doesn't stand up to scrutiny.
I don't know if you are a native English speaker,
No.
("one") and this is what I experienced in >15 years of free software and OSS development. It explains also perfectly why FPC is a living project (yes, we also look always for contributors but which OSS projects doesn't do so?) while GPC is currently in some zombie state.
How does that explain this? Both GPC and FPC are FOSS software, aren't they? People who are idealistic about Pascal can be equally idealistic when using GPC as when using FPC, can they not?
The whole thread is about contributors and not users. FPC is self hosting so one being idealistic about pascal can also work in the compiler (and yes, several people working on FPC can maybe read C but coded seriously in C not even to talk about C++).
Anyways, the thread gets off topic.