"Rudy Velthuis (TeamB)" <✉rvelthuis.de> wrote in message news:✉forums.codegear.com...
> Mattias Andersson wrote: > >> Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) wrote: >> >> >>> Why don't you use the best language in the world? ;-) >> > > >> >> There aren't a lot of good lexers and compiler generators available >> >> in Object Pascal unfortunately**. >> > >> > I assume they would write their own. That's their business, isn't >> > it? >> >> Honestly Rudy, I've not expressed an opinion along these lines at >> all. > > I don't follow, sorry. They do write compilers, don't they? That makes > me think they are not dependent on existing compiler generators.
I think the question was why doesn't Embarcadero write the new 64-bit compiler and/or cross-compiler in Delphi.
My guesses would be 1) because a lot of the existing C code of the 32-bit compiler can be reused, and 2) folks who are experts at writing compilers use C (C++).
- David Harper