OT: Language for the ages

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 14:36 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote: I agree Forth would be a good choice. Typically the assembly language portion of the Forth kernel is extremely minimal. So very little code needs to be changed to port to a new architecture. So you could include the entire source code and documentation, and simple porting instructions for the interpreter along with your application. All on the same floppy disk ;-) The downside would be ease of integration with other languages and libraries. C may be a better choice, and almost certainly is if your application will have library dependencies. It would be hard to imagine a CPU and/or OS going into production without a C compiler and bindings being available for it. Fortran seems like a poor choice to me, unless you need access to the excellent scientific programming libraries available for it. In which case it is probably the default choice. But I imagine a tiny percentage of programs require that kind of math library support and can get by with much less. -- John.