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Re: Cheap implementations of languages (Re: Pointers and poor implementations (was: Re: JLG's flogging ...))

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From: diamond
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 1990 03:51
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In article <YAT2FR7ggpc2@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

>I'm not *in* this discussion. I'm just sitting on the side pointing out
>things you guys miss.

Gee, everyone can play this game.

>How many PD Fortran compilers are there?

Hundreds.  Once upon a time, software had no legal protection.
And those compilers ran on machines a lot smaller* than PCs, too.
Anyone want to port some of them?  If you can find manuals for
the machine languages they were implemented in, that is.

*well, not smaller in physical size, but....

-- 
Norman Diamond, Nihon DEC     diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com
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From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa)
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Subject: Re: Cheap implementations of languages (Re: Pointers and poor implementations (was: Re: JLG's flogging ...))
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