EDSAC on your desk.

At 10:43 AM 21-09-98 -0400, CLASSICCMP(a)timaxp.trailing-edge.com wrote: Well, if you want to do something reasonably portable (I was about to write portable, but someone will provide a nice counter example :-) you could write it in a language that has a compiler written in itself that generates pseudo-code. Two examples come to mind, Pascal and BCPL (me, I prefer the latter, but what the heck). You then write an interpreter for the pseudo-code in anything handy (the BCPL one I have is written in c, but it's about a day's work to rewrite in some other high level language. Took about 2 weeks way back when to write macros to convert intcode (the BCPL pseudo-code) to 8080 assembler, and then about a week to assemble a simple program on my Northstar :-)). Then you have a relatively portable environment that you can take with you wherever you go. I have versions of the BCPL compiler running on VMS, Digital Unix, Linux and NT. My one major BCPL program works in all these environments (it's my basic test of correctness other than the compiler itself). Further info at http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/LANG/BCPL-1.html Huw Davies | e-mail: Huw.Davies(a)latrobe.edu.au Information Technology Services | Phone: +61 3 9479 1550 Fax: +61 3 9479 1999 La Trobe University | "If God had wanted soccer played in the Melbourne Australia 3083 | air, the sky would be painted green"