SH>I did spend a largish amount of time porting Pascal doors to FPC...
SH>when debugging became effectivly impossible to to compiler errors, I
SH>simply stopped working on them... it's faster to translate the
SH>program into a language that DOES compile correctly on the target
SH>platform (Something I did with TimePort) than it is to
SH>port/debug/unit debug/compiler debug the program in its native
SH>language.

I haven't personally used any of the Pascal compilers under Linux.  
However, from what I've heard of them most of the Pascal programmers 
seem to be complaining not that the Pascal compiler isn't working to the 
Pascal standards, but that it's not emulating the bugs that their own 
Windows/DOS compiler had in them.

Which then brings the question, what's better?  Another broken compiler?  
Or one that actually implements the Pascal standards properly?

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