I'm wondering what would be involved in making a Delphi to bytecode compiler... Does anyone have any experience writing compilers, that could give me some advice?
The reason I think this would be useful, is that it would broaden the scope of the Java platform, enabling many languages to be used (just like .NET). There are already several langages (e.g. Java, Jython, Groovy, and perhaps others), but it would be nice to have a language as close as possible to Delphi syntax that could likewise compile into bytecode. This would greatly facilitate converting projects from Delphi to Java.
> The reason I think this would be useful, is that it would broaden the > scope of the Java platform, enabling many languages to be used (just > like .NET). There are already several langages (e.g. Java, Jython, > Groovy, and perhaps others), but it would be nice to have a language as > close as possible to Delphi syntax that could likewise compile into > bytecode. This would greatly facilitate converting projects from Delphi > to Java.