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From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Query for the Net
Message-ID: <15735@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 21:07:23 GMT
References: <1990Nov6.155810.20604@intelhf.hf.intel.com> <90311.140732UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <90311.140732UH2@psuvm.psu.edu> UH2@psuvm.psu.edu (Lee Sailer) writes:
>In article <1990Nov6.155810.20604@intelhf.hf.intel.com>, griff@anvil.intel.com
>(Richard Griffith) says:

>Briefly: 

>GOTS:		C, M2, Pascal, Forth, LISP, Prolog, Draco, Oberon, C++, 
		Fortran, BASIC, REXX
>DON'T GOTS:	Smalltalk, SQL, Mathematica, Obj-C, Eiffel, COBOL

>What'd I forget??

In the GOTS column, the PD version of Icon, which very effectively eliminates 
the need for a SNOBOL-4.  And a PD version of Scheme, too.

There was at one point (I saw it at the very first AmiExpo, in NYC) a rather 
vanilla APL interpreter, which would actually be reasonably on an FPU equipped
machine.  There is the Commodore marketed Logo, for anyone interested in turtles 
and babylisp.  And I think there's a Comal interpreter out now.

I suspect the net's C-based Intercal has been ported, too.  Now there's a
language for REAL programmers.  

I don't know of any Ada shipping, though I did hear a rumor of an Ada planned 
from OXXI.  And while there are two LISPs, neither is one I'm all that familiar
with, of the oldstyle MACLISP or InterLISP mold if not CommonLISP, and there's
no true LISP compiler.  And, though it probably doesn't matter to most folks
out there, I guess we're still missing Algol, PL/1, PL/M, Modula III, COGENT, 
SAIL, POP-2, IPL, BLISS, ISPS, Actor, SL5, CORC, Promol, RATFOR, KISS, SAM76,
ADL, WHEREFOR, SALT, OPS5, LOBSTER, .... 

Well, you get the idea.  Incidently, I've only programmed in 18 of the 
languages mentioned on this page, if you count all the LISPs as one.  But
that's cheating, since one of them was my senior year compiler class project
in college.


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