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From: jv@mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: Crock involving FIRQBs
Message-ID: <1991Feb15.093632.8918@pronto.mh.nl>
Date: 15 Feb 91 09:36:32 GMT
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Sender: jv@pronto.mh.nl (Johan Vromans)
Reply-To: Johan Vromans <jv@mh.nl>
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In-Reply-To: worley@compass.com's message of 13 Feb 91 22:04:36 GMT


>    X-Name: Larry Wall
> 
>    Yep.  Did you ever try writing a run-time system with no documentation?
>    That was fun.  Disassembling the operating system helped, a little.

At the time I tried to write a RTS, the Oregon Pascal compiler had the
option to compile and link a program into a stand-alone run-time
system. 

Actually I never got that far. Instead of writing the RTS in Pascal on
RSTS, I switched to C and Unix.

Not a bad move, I think.

	Johan
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