Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!mcnc!decvax!shlump.nac.dec.com!tkou02.enet.dec.com!diamond From: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Cheap implementations of languages (Re: Pointers and poor implementations (was: Re: JLG's flogging ...)) Message-ID: <1455@tkou02.enet.dec.com> Date: 10 Apr 90 03:51:23 GMT References: <14312@lambda.UUCP> Reply-To: diamond@tkou02.enet.dec.com (diamond@tkovoa) Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Japan , Tokyo Lines: 19 In article 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 This_blank_intentionally_left_underlined________________________________________