Microsoft open sources GWBASIC

[ben]

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:
>> 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

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.