29 May
2020
29 May
'20
8:25 p.m.
C is portable by design and runs on many architectures.
It doesn't need 512Kb of RAM and it doesn't depend on Unix.
From: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
To: "cctalk" <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 1:20:56 PM
Subject: Re: Microsoft open sources GWBASIC
On 5/29/2020 12:42 PM, John Foust via cctalk wrote:
At 10:59 AM 5/29/2020, Jecel Assumpcao Jr via cctech
wrote:
Is C portable because most the machines the same kind,8/16/32 bits
with greater than 512kb ram? or that C runs on more kinds machines? Or
is C portable because of unix?
BTW Microsoft also had Fortan, You don't hear much about that.
Ben.
The modern variation of the Turing Tarpit. At
least they come to this
illusion honestly given that you even have people who think implementing
Forth in C is the way to go.
What, are you saying that someone couldn't write some Perl or Python
to translate the GW BASIC assembler to portable C?
- John