Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!husc6!uwvax!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!cbosgd!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: news.admin Subject: Re: PD C as solution to binary groups Message-ID: <3725@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Sat, 1-Aug-87 19:03:36 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.3725 Posted: Sat Aug 1 19:03:36 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Aug-87 20:28:23 EDT References: <6960@g.ms.uky.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 21 As quoted from <6960@g.ms.uky.edu> by sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey): +--------------- | Frankly, I'd rather see only source posted. Unfortunately, not everyone has | a compiler. Not everyone uses C either. Not everyone has the source to the | programs they post. What about PKARC or PROCOMM for the IBM pc? No +--------------- And then there's the problem I recently had: A VMS binary for a program written in Ada. So who's going to write the fully-validated PD Ada compiler? Agreed -- it *might* be nice if everyone could post sources. But, as the flip side of this, it'd be nice if I had C and Pascal and Modula 2 and Ada and Smalltalk and Prolog and APL and ... for both my PC and for ncoast. (Keep in mind, also, that APL _really_ requires the APL character set to get the most use out of it. I happen to have an APL terminal, but does everyone else?) [Yes, I know that Smalltalk is interpretive, but you get my point.] -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!cwruecmp!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <>