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A comment on Kalium – idiomatic source-to-source translation of Pascal into Haskell.

Re:Kalium – idiomatic source-to-source translation of Pascal... by aetherspawn on Thursday March 15, 2018 @07:02PM (#16597242)
No commits for 2 years.
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Re:Kalium – idiomatic source-to-source translation of Pascal... by WalterGR on Friday March 16, 2018 @12:50AM (#16598704)
That's good to point out.

https://int-index.github.io/kalium/pascal.pdf :

"Even if your program compiles, the implemented subset of Pascal is quite limited right now, but will be extended over time."

No commits in 2 years gives insight into what to expect from "extended over time".

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Re:Kalium – idiomatic source-to-source translation of Pascal... by quickthrower2 on Thursday March 15, 2018 @09:01PM (#16597824)
That's the problem with a strong type system and a designing a tool that does one job well.
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Re:Kalium – idiomatic source-to-source translation of Pascal... by mycall on Thursday March 15, 2018 @09:32PM (#16597943)
Good point. Looking at last check-in date sometimes doesn't mean bitrot or missing forward compatibility.
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