14 Oct
2005
14 Oct
'05
5:09 p.m.
On 10/14/2005 at 5:29 PM Paul Koning wrote:
C is the obvious choice. In either case, you have to
be careful that
you don't wreck the portability by using non-portable I/O.
Is it? Given that we don't have 20-20 prescience, how about 20-20
hindsight? Could you implement C on any computer with sufficient memory?
How about an IBM 1401, 1620 or 7080? What would you do with all of those
nice operators such as <<, >>, &, |, and ^, given that these were decimal
machines? OTOH, FORTRAN's been implemented on all of these.
Cheers,
Chuck