17 Jan
2006
17 Jan
'06
7:39 a.m.
On 1/4/06, Tony Duell <ard at
p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
COMAL was very nice. What BBC Basic should have been ;-)
I presume you do know about Acornsoft C. (I did some of the QA
on that compiler)
There was a LOGO of sorts, I seem to recall, but hard pressed to
remember any details. It may have been a hack job in basic actually.
Hold on ... http://www.catharton.com/electronica/viewpage.php?page_id=2
yep, was sure I remembered it.
And wasn't there an ICON for the beeb? i don't remember it personally
but I remember someone at Edinburgh telling me he'd written a version
of our text editor ECCE in Icon, and I think it was for the Beeb. Could
be wrong about that one.
Graham
What languages were available for the BBC Micro
(without a second
processor[1]), I wonder. I know about BASIC, Pascal, Forth, Lisp
There was an Acornsoft BCPL.
There is known to be a Beebug C, but I never managed to track it down.
The C I did manage to track down (not proper C but Small-C, and indeed
only a limited subset of even that) was done by Dr. A. J. Travis. I
wrote a project in this, and really liked it.