GSOC Linker project

[dennis luehring]

Am 07.05.2012 07:53, schrieb Paulo Pinto:
> I really really think that mankind did a wrong turn when C won over Pascal
> in the 80's.
>
> And that Wirth somehow lost interest in the industry and did not try to push
> Modula-* or Oberon. There are some papers where he states this.
>
> Now we suffer from
>
> - daggling pointers
> - buffer overflows
> - pre-historic compiler toolchains
>
> With luck, Spec#, Go or more nicely D, will put us back on track.

we should collect all the advantages of turbo pascal/delphi 
object-file-formats and make a small description post to show others in 
a clear understandable way how good/and longlife these technics are

so the unit-system (turbo pascal: .pas -> .tpu, delphi: .pas->.dcu, free 
pascal: .pas -> ppu), the tpumover, ppumover for tpl or ppl libraries, 
the dll delphi solution .bpl

and the advantage of controling the output of source inside the source
program -> exe, unit -> object, library -> dynamic libray etc.

any ideas how to start?