Re: Programming Languages

In article <o4bEj.30190$qW6.11895@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Kendrick
<nntp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 16:11:10 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

In article <gE9Ej.29574$qW6.2636@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Rob Kendrick
<nntp@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:56:14 +0000, John Cartmell wrote:

So what is available now - excluding the 'this may or may not work'
candidates and highlighting anything that is 26/32 bit neutral?

You can add Perl, Python, Lua, bash shell script, GNU C, GNU C++, GNU
Ada, and Wimp Basic to your list straight away.

All running 26/32 bit neutral & in RO5/6 with all necessary support
utilities?

My understanding is they all are. Perl is used in the NetSurf build
system, for example, and CDBurn's written in Ada. NetSurf's build with
GNU C, Firefox with GNU C++, Lua's so portable it's almost untrue so even
if it didn't work, it wouldn't take more than 5 minutes to make it work.
Wimp Basic I'm just going on by what's been said in these groups recently.

Someone said Perl wasn't available - or there was a problem with the version.
Source?

On those restrictions what do I need to remove from that original list?

I suspect you should remove ABC, as it doesn't like the A9's OS (and one
then assumes RISC OS 6 on 32 bit machines),

IIRC ABC can be used if you turn off error checking in the A9. That doesn't
inspire confidence.

Desktop Assembler because there are vastly superior products out there
(unless you mean ObjAsm by Desktop Assembler), and possibly some of the
others that look like they might not have been touched in years.

The list was from a photographed article from Acorn Computing (I may have
said Archimedes World in error) and much of the text has disappeared against
the dark background.

Also, which implementations of LISP and SmallTalk are you talking about?
They're languages, not implementations.

LISP - XLIPS (David Pilling)
Smalltalk - Little Smalltalk (David Pilling) £5.99 ic VAT
- Archimedes Samlltalk-80 (Aleph One £795.00 + VAT





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