Imlac assembler almost ready...

From: Tom Uban <uban_at_ubanproductions.com>
Date: Mon Sep 16 11:05:01 2002

At 11:11 AM 9/16/2002 -0400, Roger Merchberger wrote:
>Rumor has it that Jeffrey Sharp may have mentioned these words:
>>On Friday, September 13, 2002, Bob Shannon wrote:
>>
>> > A Windows machine would be the most practical host.
>>
>>I suggest you make it platform-independent (e.g. Java).
>
>Why not make it a lot *more* platform independent... e.g. Perl.
>
>There's a version of Perl 4.0.36 that runs on Atari STs (not too badly,
>either...) kinda bringing this back ontopic... ;-)

Hmm. Well I would actually guess that while C (in which the assembler is
already written) is
not quite as portable as Perl (from the it runs without modification
standpoint), there are
probably more C implementations than there are Perl, for a wider variety of
machines.

BTW, what is off topic about any of these discussions?

--tom


>Laterz,
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
>--
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- sysadmin, Iceberg Computers
>zmerch_at_30below.com
>
>What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
>and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
>
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 11:05:01 BST